MUSC 2300 - Chamber Choir Credit Hours: 1.00
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Corequisites: MUSC 1300
An auditioned performance ensemble designed for the advanced choral singer at the college level. Repertoire representative of sacred and secular masterpieces in choral literature from various genres, cultures and historic periods.
Location: Center Campus
Contact Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate growth in personal vocal development.
Objectives:
- Sing with exemplary placement and focus of tone.
- Sing using a free, vibrant and unforced tone.
- Sing in tune while exhibiting an outstanding sense of tonal center.
- Acquire one’s part through reading musical notation.
- Recognize one’s part within the context of the whole.
- Utilize musicianship.
- Perform with a musicality consistent with the piece.
- Maintain posture and breath support.
- Communicate the text to the listener.
Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate growth in musicianship.
Objectives:
- Define basic musical terminology and fundamentals, including:
- Key signatures.
- Time signatures.
- Note values.
- Pitches.
- Rhythms.
- Accidentals.
- Dynamics.
- Tempo indications.
- Various Italian terms that give direction in the music.
- Recognize the harmonic nature of one’s part.
Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate growth in musicality.
Objectives:
- Style, appropriate to the piece’s genre, including historical and/or cultural aspects.
- Phrasing appropriate to the notation and text creating forward moving musical lines with fitting rise and fall.
- Consistency and continuity within one’s performance and from piece to piece.
- Emotional communication including facial expression and physical involvement appropriate to the text and style of a piece.
Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate growth in choral balance.
Objectives:
- Exhibit sensitivity to others on the same part.
- Exhibit sensitivity to the other parts within the whole.
Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate growth in foreign language as it applies to singing.
Objectives:
- Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress.
- Paraphrase translations to English.
Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate growth in aesthetic sense as it is applied to performance.
Objectives:
- Apply text within the music.
- Recognize the value of quality choral literature.
- Recognize the value of excellence in performance.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)
- The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
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- 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- 3. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
Chamber Choir is a music opportunity in vocal performance within an auditioned ensemble. Students develop vocal technique, notational reading ability, musicianship and team skills as well as acquire knowledge in music vocabulary and theory. They rehearse and perform selected literature which varies. Rehearsals include:
- Vocal Technique
- Intonation
- Part Acquisition & Recognition
- Musicianship
- Musicality
- Posture/Support/Active Physical Engagement
- Focus/Energy/Attentiveness
- Diction/language Pronunciation
- Communication
Primary Faculty
Moses, Todd
Secondary Faculty
Cook, Thomas
Associate Dean
Ternullo, Annette
Dean
Pritchett, Marie
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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