Anthony Gonsalves Chair
WESTERN MUSIC CHAIR
GOA UNIVERSITY – VRPP
Professor Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli Anthony Gonsalves Chair. Visiting Research Professor Program
Goa University.
Western Music 11 CHORAL SINGING MUSIC
FOUNDATIONS OF CHORAL MUSIC; THEORICAL ON PRACTICAL COURSE.
2 credit course
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Introduction.
This course is the eleventh edition of Music in Dialogue with Western Philosophy, History and Arts. This course seeks to understand the practice and technique of the choral western music tradition, seeking to understand the real meaning of the human need to express their living experiences through the act of singing. Structured in 4 modules and 1 practical performance, this course offers the students to be part of a very dynamic and nourish educational experience by participating in the regular activities of the GU CHOIR. During the schedule modules Professor Dr. Santiago Lusardi will guide and train the students in the art of choral singing and the history and meanings of this millennial tradition.
This course will also dissert about the ideas and evolution of the choral music parameters through the analysis of different pieces of the corpus of the contemporary music tradition from west. In this set of courses under the name of Music in Dialogue with Western Philosophy, History and Arts we assume the goal to be to study the foundations of Western Music through the analysis of different works and composers, studying them both, theoretically and practically, including also the analysis of the elements that constitute them.
Structure of the course
- 5 modules with 14 classes of 90 minutes sessions: Total 24 hours
- Final examination and performance with the GU CHOIR
Syllabus.
Module 1
Classes 1 to 4
Foundations of Choral Music
Theorical approach
- – CHORAL MUSIC – Historical Review
- Introduction to the course: Basic ideas
- Conference I: Historical Review
- Activities 1 & 2: Perception and Appreciation of the musical phenomena of singing: Analysis of the sound structure phenomena. Introduction to the concepts of resonance and timbre in the voice. The inner world: the perception of your own sound
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- – CHORAL MUSIC: The great repertoire
- Introduction, Structure, History and the Social context of Choral Works in Western Music
- Activities 3 & 4: Singing Choral Music I
- Practical module 2: Singing Technical aspects: Breathing I & Choral rehearsal
Module 2
Classes 5 to 9
Technical aspects of the choral singing phenomena I – CHORAL MUSIC: Historical Review II
- Review – Activities 5 & 6
- Conference II: The Human Voice: voice registers: qualification and classification
- Activity 3: Breathing and air control exercises
- Activity 4: Perception and Appreciation of the musical phenomena: dissonance and consonance harmonies in contemporary vocal Music
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II – Relegere: seeking the sense of music.
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- Directionality in vocal lines I
- Activity 7: Contemporary Choral Music Appreciation I
- Activity 8: Singing Choral Music II
- Practical module 2: Singing Technical aspects: Breathing II & Choral rehearsal
Module 3
Classes 10 & 11
Technical aspects of the solo singing phenomena
Class III.
- – CHORAL MUSIC: Historical Review III
- Review – Activity – Class 1
- Conference II: The Human Voice: voice registrers: calification and clasificaction in opera and oratory
- Activity 9: Breathing and air control exercises II
- Activity 10: Perception and Appreciation of the musical phenomena: dissonance and
consonance harmonies in contemporary vocal Music
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- – Relegere: seeking the sense of
- Directionality in vocal lines II
- Activity 11: Contemporary Choral Music Appreciation II
- Activity 12: Singing Choral Music III
- Practical module 4: Singing Technical aspects: Pitch and choral rehearsal
Module 4
Classes 12 to 16
The great repertoire
- – CHORAL MUSIC – Historical Review IV
- Introduction to the great contemporary choral repertoire
- Conference I: Historical Review of the evolution of choral music parameters
- Historical and anthropological review of the human need to sing and make music II
- Activity 11: Perception and Appreciation of the musical phenomena of singing: Analysis of the sound structure phenomena II. Introduction to the concepts of resonance and timbre in the The inner world: the perception of your own sound II
- Practical module 4: Singing Technical aspects: choral rehearsal
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- – CHORAL MUSIC: The great repertoire
- Introduction, Structure, History and the Social context of Choral Works in Western Music
- Activity 12: Contemporary Choral Music Appreciation III
- Activity 13: Singing Choral Music IV
- Practical module 3: Singing Technical aspects: choral rehearsal
Examination, Research and Performance
- Review & Activity 14: Contemporary Choral Music Appreciation V
- Review & Activity 15: Singing Choral Music V
- Final Examination, performance with the GU CHOIR &
