Through hands-on experience in the Westminster Voice Laboratory, students explore the physics of sound, the fundamentals of musical acoustics, and acoustical elements that are unique to the human singing voice. A wide range of important historical and contemporary pedagogy treatises is reviewd. Sutdents explore exeercises and vocalises for general voice development as well as techniques to address and correct specific vocal problems. Role-playing exerciesas are used to develop appropriate listening and teaching skills. Class participants begin supervised instruction of a volunteer singing student.
Emphasis is placed on becoming familiar with all voice classifications and basic vocal literature.
Same as VC433, with additional requirements for graduate students. Same as VC434, with additional requirements for graduate students. Under faculty supervision, students design and execute a significant research project exploring an aspect of voice that can be measured and evaluated through the analysis instruments in the Westminster Voice Laboratory. Students with special insterests in speech pathology or voice therapy may elect to visit the clinics of medical voice specialists in the area who have an association with Westminster.