COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MAJOR INSTRUMENT TRAINING 4 (CHANT)

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZE 2020 MAJOR INSTRUMENT TRAINING 4 (CHANT) ELECTIVE 1 0 0 1

Offered By

Music Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TÜLAY EKICI

Offered to

Music Teacher Education

Course Objective

To provide music teacher candidates with behaviors related to using their own voices in a healty, correct, beautiful and effective way in speaking and singing and educator competence in voice training.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learns basic information to use natural and healthy his/her own voice.
2   Learns basic information to human voice system and physiology.
3   Comprehends preliminary studies prepared to controlled singing and learns to controlled use of diaphragm breath.
4   Learns basic elements in correct and aesthetic voice production.
5   Gains basic information needed to distinguish types and features of voice
6   Learns different songs from Turkish and world voice literature.
7   Gets the lifelong learning habit.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Technical studies in preparation for the course. Selection of the songs to work during the semester and starting to the Arie Antiche album.
2 Technical exercises. Technically voice exercises with the nuances and practising technically nuance studies on the songs.
3 Technical exercises. Voice exercises with long melodies and different syllables and studies on selected songs.
4 Studies to use gained technical skills for production of homogeneous and good voice. Continuation of works on the songs.
5 Technical exercises and studying on examination songs, detection and elimination of deficiencies.
6 Strengthening studies with piano accompaniment and memorization of examination songs.
7 Study week course repetition and mid-term exam
8 Course repetition and Mid-term exam
9 Messa di voce studies and continuation of studies on the songs.
10 Understanding of the natural position of vibrato within the voice. Exercises for understanding of differences between vibrato, trill and wobble.
11 Using of proper breathing, correct vocal positions, using the voice in resonance area, legato and staccato singing, attack and intonation, balance of registers, control over the songs of nuances and vibrato techniques.
12 Identification of examination-oriented songs and detailed study.
13 Technical exercises, working on examination songs, detection and elimination of deficiencies.
14 Technical exercises, Strengthening studies with piano accompaniment and memorization of examination songs.
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Vaccaj (Nicola Vaccaj), Unterrichtslieder (Paul Losse) Concone (Giuseppe Concone), Arie Antiche I-II-III, Neapoliten songs, Accompaniment Folk Songs.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, question and answer, demonstration, sampling, methods of supporting memory, repetition, memorization.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Performance Evaluation

Assessment Criteria

Performance-based assessment

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Course attendance and development status

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tulay.ekici@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Every day one hour

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 1 13
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 5 1 5
Midterm Preparation 3 2 6
Final Preparation 5 2 10
Final 1 1 1
Vize 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 36

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