Course: Choir Conducting III

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Course title Choir Conducting III
Course code KHV/70410
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kuželka Vladimír, doc. PaedDr.
Course content
The aim of the course is to acquire skills in clock technique in medium tempo, in legate and staccato versions, alternation of measures, basic clock schemes of compound measures. Split gesture, merged gesture, tempo changes. Dynamics - sudden and gradual dynamic changes. Score analysis. Practicing the acquired basic skills of tact technique in the basic and compound measures of quarter and eighth bars and their application in the tact of folk songs in two to three-part arrangements for different types of choirs. Timing of simple choral compositions. Arm independence - beginnings and conclusions of individual voices in two and three voices (bicinia, tricinia). Crown clocking. Recitative method of conducting, agogics. It includes vocal exercises and models of singing ascending and descending and playing scores. Methodology of choral composition practice. An overview of church events in our country and abroad.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquire skills in clock technique in medium tempo, in legate and staccato versions, alternation of measures, basic clock schemes of compound measures. Split gesture, merged gesture, tempo changes. Dynamics - sudden and gradual dynamic changes. Score analysis. Practicing the acquired basic skills of tact technique in the basic and compound measures of quarter and eighth bars and their application in the tact of folk songs in two to three-part arrangements for different types of choirs. Timing of simple choral compositions. Arm independence - beginnings and conclusions of individual voices in two and three voices (bicinia, tricinia). Crown clocking. Recitative method of conducting, agogics. It includes vocal exercises and models of singing ascending and descending and playing scores. Methodology of choral composition practice. An overview of church events in our country and abroad.
The aim of the course is to acquire skills in clock technique in medium tempo, in legate and staccato versions, alternation of measures, basic clock schemes of compound measures. Split gesture, merged gesture, tempo changes. Dynamics - sudden and gradual dynamic changes. Score analysis. Practicing the acquired basic skills of tact technique in the basic and compound measures of quarter and eighth bars and their application in the tact of folk songs in two to three-part arrangements for different types of choirs. Timing of simple choral compositions. Arm independence - beginnings and conclusions of individual voices in two and three voices (bicinia, tricinia). Crown clocking. Recitative method of conducting, agogics. It includes vocal exercises and models of singing ascending and descending and playing scores. Methodology of choral composition practice. An overview of church events in our country and abroad.
Prerequisites
none

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
attendance 70%, activity in class, conducting and rehearsing selected compositions for the choir, self-conducting of a chosen composition with a study group or with a choir
Recommended literature
  • Kolář, J., Štíbrová. I. Sborový zpěv a řízení sboru II., Jc-Audio, Netolice 2011.
  • Pecháček, S. Základy taktování, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Pdf., Praha, 2003.


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