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Private
Voice Lessons 643
Culver offers private instrument lessons to
students, including
voice. This is an opportunity for those who wish to explore
their musical studies more seriously, and for those who
just want to try something new. Private lessons are given once per week, and
students are
expected to practice 3 hours per week in addition to
the lesson time.
When high demand exceeds the available time
of our current teachers' schedules, we ask
adjunct
teachers to help with the needed lesson times.
There is a fee charged for private music lessons, but
musicians who contribute to the school by being
enrolled in Band, Choir, or Orchestra may be eligible to receive a fee
reduction for private lessons.
Materials
used: Vaccai Practical Method of Italian
Singing, Twenty-four Italian Songs and Arias, The
First Book series, and additional repertoire
appropriate for the individual voice, skill, and age.
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Choir invites all students to
improve personal vocal skills, sing
as a member of an ensemble, and experience all
genres of music. General
music skills, sight singing, and vocal and performance
techniques will be developed. Small ensemble
work, and various performances on and off campus will
be included as part of the curriculum.
Choir meets twice a week, and can
be taken all 4 terms.
*Goals:
Steady growth of the vocal
instrument and vocal performance abilities;
development of critical listening to the students own
performances and performances of others; growing
sensitivity to aesthetic qualities of music;
recognition of ethnic, racial, and historical
contributions to music and their relationships to
contemporary music practices; the learner will be able to describe various aspects of vocal
sounds, including different vocal ranges and the
desirable and undesirable aspects of vocal quality;
be able to sings songs or song excerpts in a
style appropriate to each, will be able to sing alone
or with a group, on pitch and in tempo, with clear
diction, consistent breath control, and appropriate
posture for singing;
be able to sing expressively a variety of vocal
literature, utilizing dynamic contrasts, phrasing that
fits the musical work, a variety of articulations, and
a style appropriate to the piece being sung;
will be able to sing an independent vocal part
while maintaining a balance of volume and a blend of
vocal quality with other members of the ensemble; will be able to sing expressively, incorporating appropriate
contrasts of dynamics, phrasing and articulations in
the style of the music being performed;
will be able to sing with appropriate posture,
position, and control of breath;
will be able to echo melodic, rhythmic, or
harmonic patterns;
will be able to sing, maintaining tempo,
balancing the sound with the rest of the ensemble, and
following the conductor;
will be able to maintain an independent voice
part while others sing different parts; will be able
to name and explain the meaning of symbols for pitch,
rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulations, and expression
found on a musical score, will be able to demonstrate
the correct use of musical terminology when discussing
music; will
be able to describe in musical terms the unique
features of a choral work;
will be able to identify and describe similar
use of formal devices such as key relations,
repetition, augmentation, and diminution found in
choral works.
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