Choir Singing - OIBH4H103C

• Title: Choir Singing
• Form of teaching: seminar
• Guaranteed by: Katedra hudební výchovy (41-KHV)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2025 to 2025
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 0/2, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: OPBH4H103C
• Repeated enrollment: unlimited
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. MgA. Marek Valášek, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Comprehensive education of a choir singer. The specificity of the discipline lies in the current education of students of different years, equipped with different levels of musical skills and the degree of current solo singing or choral practice. The study of specific compositions makes it possible to obtain an overview of the choral vocal literature of a certain choral grouping and the principles of its interpretation.

Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (27.10.2020)

Descriptors

Expected preparation time for 1 exercise: 60 minutes

Self-study of literature (per semester): 10 hours

Work with study materials (per semester): 20 hours

Completion of ongoing tasks (per semester): 10 hours

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (29.01.2025)

Course completion requirements

The condition for credit is:

1. Knowledge of the partes, participation in concerts.

2. Written review of one choral concert. Students can attend a choirmaster bachelor or graduate concert of classmates, choir festival or competition.

3. Maximum 3 absences per semester.

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (08.09.2023)

Literature

English

Thornton, T. The Choral Singer's Survival Guide. Vocal Planet Publishing, 2005. 246 p. ISBN: 978-0976200208.

Snow, S. Choral Conducting/Teaching. GIA PUBLICATIONS, INC., 2009. DVD.

Horstmann, S. The Choral Warm-Up: Choral Vocal Technique. GIA PUBLICATIONS, INC., 2009. 68 pp.

Miller, K. Principles of Singing: A Textbook for Voice Class or Studio. Barnes&Noble, 1989. ISBN 9780137127122

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (14.09.2024)

Syllabus

First-year students will be divided into two choirs.

The women’s section rehearses separately (choirmaster: Mgr. Veronika Holcová) on Tuesdays from 15.20 to 16.50 in C221. This choir is primarily intended for less experienced female singers. Other interested students from different courses are also welcome to join the choir. We recommend that more advanced singers also join the chamber choir, led by Mgr. Sylvie Sasková on Tuesdays from 17.10 to 18.40 in C205.

First-year male students will be members of the mixed choir, led by doc. Marek Valášek on Tuesdays from 15.20 to 16.50 in C205.

Mixed choir performances in the winter semester: 12 November, Karolinum – gala concert to mark the 80th anniversary of the Faculty of Education (special rehearsals: Sunday 8 November, Celetná 13, C205, 6–9 pm; Tuesday 10 November, tutti, 5–9 pm, Karolinum)

A distinctive feature of the course lies in the simultaneous training of students from different years, each with varying levels of musical ability and degrees of prior experience in solo singing or choral singing. Studying specific compositions provides an overview of the choral repertoire of a particular choral ensemble and the principles of its interpretation. The course involves active membership of one of the existing faculty choirs. Alongside the training of choral singers, the course focuses on individual experience in interpreting specific vocal works performed with the choir on various occasions. In addition to regular attendance at rehearsals and demonstrating mastery of the studied repertoire, a written review of concerts by professional choirs is also a requirement for credit.

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (04.09.2026)

Learning outcomes

Student

- uses the potential from previous courses with voice preparation

- orientates him/herself in musical notation, analyses and realises interval and harmonic/tonal relationships

- performs his/her part in a mixed choir, making use of the dynamic range and respecting the tempo indications of the conductor

- performs representatively on official stages

Last update: Valášek Marek, doc. Mgr. MgA., Ph.D. (10.09.2024)