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Core Skills In Opera 1 (MUSI90231)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 18.75Dual-Delivery (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Overview
Availability | Semester 1 - Dual-Delivery |
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Students will undertake this subject to develop foundational knowledge, and isolate and cultivate the core skills, necessary for performing opera repertoire from either the baroque/classical periods, or the romantic/twentieth-century periods, depending on the cycle of repertoire selection for the course.
This will include the development of:
- Strategies for singers to achieve foundational interactive voice, lyric diction and body work for stage productions; OR
- Strategies for repetiteurs to work at a foundational level to play keyboard parts and full orchestral scores in a spontaneous rehearsal context, and to learn how to negotiate complex ensemble interactions and dynamics in the rehearsal room.
To achieve these goals, students will work in group contexts to consolidate and develop:
- Foundation skills in vocal delivery and acting with appropriate stylistic approaches
- Foundation skills in the interactions between singing, speech, lyric diction and text appropriate to the demands of either baroque/classical, or romantic/twentieth-century operatic works.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- foundational capacity to perform a variety of operatic styles appropriate to the baroque/ classical or romantic/twentieth-century periods being investigated;
- foundational capacity to prepare and rehearse an operatic scene from baroque/ classical or romantic/twentieth-century repertoire;
- respond to instruction in improvisation using movement and voice at a foundational level;
- write phoneticisation in IPA of text relevant to the operatic repertoire being studied at a foundational level;
- coordinate basic vocal/physical warm-up exercises.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Three phoneticisations in IPA of simple song texts
| Throughout the teaching period | 30% |
Respond to and apply set class work as directed
| Second half of the teaching period | 20% |
450 words of warm-up exercise notes
| End of the teaching period | 10% |
Present operatic excerpts (up to 15 minutes) as directed
| During the assessment period | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of all scheduled classes and submit all elements of assessment to be eligible for a pass in this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Jane Davidson Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Southbank) Contact hours 54 hours, comprising 4.5 hours a week of class, tutorial, and individual coaching Total time commitment 255 hours Teaching period 1 March 2021 to 30 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 12 March 2021 Census date 31 March 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 25 June 2021
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Music (Opera Performance)
Last updated: 3 November 2022