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Core Skills In Opera 1 (MUSI90231)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 18.75On Campus (Southbank)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Jane Davidson: j.davidson@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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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: 5 February 2024
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: 5 February 2024
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: 5 February 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Coordinator Jane Davidson Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 54 hours, comprising 4.5 hours per week in a variable mixture of class, tutorial, coaching and individual settings Total time commitment 255 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Jane Davidson: j.davidson@unimelb.edu.au
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Last updated: 5 February 2024
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) - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Students must meet the course entry requirements in order to be considered for a CAP enrolment in this subject. That is, students must be made an offer to the MC-MUSOP Master of Music (Opera Performance) before seeking enrolment in this subject.
Last updated: 5 February 2024