Artistic: Main Instrument I
🎤 Module 01 – Voice

Learning Outcome:

  • The students will develop good posture, understand the anatomy of the body and develop proper breathing and warm-up techniques.
  • They will be able to sing all the diatonic modes and their triads and seventh chords their inversions in arpeggios.
  • They will understand and be able to use tetrachords to develop simple ideas for improvisation, improvise vocal lines over a chord progression and sing simple chord progressions.
  • They will be able to analyze both traditional and popular song forms and make vocal harmonizations and arrangements both for a band and in A Capella form
  • They will be able to sight sing and sing in parts and work from a written arrangement with song sheets.
  • They will understand basic song structures using binary musical form including intros, codas, interludes, solo sections, repeat bars and 1st and 2nd time bars.

Module Description:

This Module has a duration of 2 semesters and consists of two courses, Main Instrument I and Ensemble IA. The contact teaching time for each course is 90 minutes per week and is evaluated through a graded test at the end of the second semester (short concert, repertoire and technical exercises).

Facilitator:

  • Prudence Katomene

Total Credit Points: 20