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VOCAL CLASSES
Course Description
The following guidelines list the minimum goals and objectives for choral music classes offered to satisfy the studio/performance course within the humanities requirement.
Because of the power of music to express beauty, the study of music should have as its central purpose the development of aesthetic responsiveness on the part of the student. To accomplish this, music teachers should help students (1) gain an understanding of the language and structure of music; (2) develop personal and group skills in performing, creating, and listening to music; (3) develop an awareness and understanding of man's music heritage; and (4) deepen their appreciation and valuing of music.
Critical Components
I. Language and Structure of Music
A. Goal:
Students will recognize and understand the elements of music, including melody, harmony, rhythm, tempo, dynamics, form, texture, and timbre.
Objective:
Students will:
1. Recognize, identify and understand
a. Melodic line, phrasing, pitch, and intonation.
b.Tonality, chord progressions and harmonic structure.
c. Rhythm patterns and their relationship to meter.
d. Basic music terminology including tempo and dynamic workings.
e. Basic musical forms.
f. Basic principles and characteristics of vocal/choral sound.
II. Skills in Performing, Creating, Listening
B. Goal:
Students will become sensitive to the expressive and technical qualities of musical sounds and develop skills necessary to become capable and intelligent performers, creators and listeners.
Objectives:
Students will:
1. Match pitches, sing melodic lines and harmonic intervals in tune, including unison, two, three, and four part harmony.
2. Respond accurately to key centers and key changes.
3. Recognize and sing major, minor, and chromatic scales accurately.
4. Perform rhythmic figures with independence in various styles.
5. Interpret symbols, terms, and signs as used in choral literature.
6. Recognize and understand the historical and stylistic background of the music being performed with regard to texture and timbre.
7. Demonstrate an awareness of the parts of the vocal mechanism and their function.
8. Produce a good resonant vocal tone using proper breath support and posture.
9. Produce a gradual extension of range with increasing facility and flexibility.
10. Contribute to the relationship of individual voices to the entire ensemble; i.e., balance, blend, and timbre.
11. Produce open, properly placed vowels and crisp, clean consonants.
12. Experience solo and ensemble singing.
13. Recognize and demonstrate basic conducting patterns.
14. Sing compositions at sight.
III. Understanding of Music Heritage
A. Goal:
Students will develop an awareness and understanding of the composers' styles, performance media, and purposes of music which are a part of our multicultural heritage.
Objectives:
Students will:
1. Perform and listen to choral literature from various periods of music.
2. Identify and become familiar with our own musical heritage as well as the music of other cultures and ethnic groups.
3. Identify the social and historical situations which influenced the composition, styles, and performance of music.
4. Become acquainted with important composers and their music, past and present.
5. Develop an awareness of the relationship of music to other areas of the humanities.
IV. Appreciation and Evaluation
A. Goal:
Students will grow in music appreciation.
Objectives:
Students will
1. Develop an appreciation for excellence in performance.
2. Desire to continue musical experience after graduation.
3. Value music as a means of self-expression, emotional release, and elevating the human spirit.
4. Seek out additional performing and listening activities and choose music as a worthwhile use of leisure time.
5. Discover that music arouses a wide range of intellectual challenges and heightens sensitivity to beauty.
6. Exhibit proper and appreciative audience behavior.
B. Goal:
Students will learn to make intelligent judgments of musical value.
Objectives.
Students will
1. Learn to make sensitive and intelligent choices in the selection of music.
2. Develop and apply skills for evaluating individual and group performance.
3. Describe and defend in musical terms what makes one musical work greater in quality than another.
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