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The Artist Diploma Major Performance Voice is a 65-credit program.
Special Requirements:
1. Continuation in the program requires a minimum grade of A- in practical instruction/exams, ensembles, and voice coaching.
2. Candidates who have not taken the courses in Italian, French, English, and German diction as specified in the L.Mus. program must add them to the above requirements.
3. A leading operatic or oratorio role may substitute for one recital.
Note: Courses taken as credit toward a B.Mus. or L.Mus. may not be applied to the Artist Diploma requirements except for the required courses in Theory, Musicianship, and Music History or Performance Practice.
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction in an instrument or voice.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Mdivani, Marina; Lussier, Mathieu; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Box, James; Roy, Andre J; Eriksson, Erik; Forget, Normand; McMahon, Michael; Ducharme, Jérôme; Yazdanfar, Ali; Leclair, Jacqueline; Beaudry, Pierre; Chappell, Eric; Sylvan, Sanford; Plouffe, Helene; Levesque, Stephane; Aldrich, Simon; Dunn, Andrew; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Knox, Hank (Fall)
1.5 hours
Prerequisite: admission to the Artist Diploma program by audition.
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction in an instrument or voice.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Beaudry, Pierre; Roy, Andre J (Fall) Roy, Andre J; Eriksson, Erik; Forget, Normand; Poletaev, Ilya; Ducharme, Jérôme; Yazdanfar, Ali; Leclair, Jacqueline; Beaudry, Pierre; McMahon, Michael; Sylvan, Sanford; Plouffe, Helene; Levesque, Stephane; Aldrich, Simon; Dunn, Andrew; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Knox, Hank; Mdivani, Marina; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Lussier, Mathieu; Box, James (Winter)
1.5 hours
Prerequisite: MUIN 460
Practical Instrument : Performance in a recital - instrument or voice.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Note: Complete descriptions are to be found under Examinations and Goals in Practical Subjects in the Music Chapter of the University Calendar.
Practical Instrument : Practical examination on concerto repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUIN 460
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction in an instrument or voice.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Boudreault-Sevadjian, Therese; Haimovitz, Matt; Manker, Brian; Yazdanfar, Ali; Mdivani, Marina; Sylvan, Sanford; McMahon, Michael; Lussier, Mathieu; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Eriksson, Erik; Forget, Normand; Ducharme, Jérôme; Leclair, Jacqueline; Chappell, Eric; Roy, Andre J (Fall) Roy, Andre J (Winter)
1.5 hours
Prerequisite: MUIN 461
Practical Instrument : Practical instruction in an instrument or voice.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Mdivani, Marina (Fall) Mdivani, Marina; Sylvan, Sanford; McMahon, Michael; Lussier, Mathieu; Hashimoto, Kyoko; Eriksson, Erik; Forget, Normand; Ducharme, Jérôme; Leclair, Jacqueline; Chappell, Eric; Roy, Andre J; Boudreault-Sevadjian, Therese; Haimovitz, Matt; Manker, Brian; Yazdanfar, Ali (Winter)
1.5 hours
Prerequisite: MUIN 560
Practical Instrument : Performance in a recital - instrument or voice.
Terms: Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Complete descriptions are to be found under Examinations and Goals in Practical Subjects in the Music Chapter of the University Calendar.
Practical Instrument : Practical examination on concerto repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUIN 469
Practical Instrument : A course in which the performer will have individual coaching sessions on repertoire, with emphasis on musical and linguistic nuance.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Gonthier, Esther; Knox, Hank; Kinslow, Valerie; McMahon, Michael (Fall) Gonthier, Esther; McMahon, Michael; Knox, Hank (Winter)
(1 hour)
Practical Instrument : Coaching sessions on vocal repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Hansen, Patrick; Gonthier, Esther; McMahon, Michael; Knox, Hank (Fall) Kinslow, Valerie; McMahon, Michael; Knox, Hank; Gonthier, Esther (Winter)
(1 hour)
Performance : Emphasis on vocal performance practices through practical application: text, language, inflection, pronunciation and interpretation considered with individuality of each student's voice and technical development. After examining historical treatises, students will discuss and present musical selections utilizing modern performance standards yet remaining true to stylistic demands of each period.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Strauss, Anja (Fall)
3 hours
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MUPG 690.
Large Ensemble Training - during every term of enrolment as a full-time or part-time student.
8 credits from:
Ensemble : Coachings, rehearsals, stagings, technical/dress rehearsals in the theatre, and performances in front of an audience.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Hansen, Patrick (Fall) Hansen, Patrick (Winter)
2 hours
Prerequisite: Audition
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Ensemble : Vocal workshop for jazz musicians.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Ensemble : An ensemble of 8 to 12 voices specializing in early music. N.B. This ensemble may substitute as a Basic Ensemble in programs that specify Choral Ensemble, with Departmental approval.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Kinslow, Valerie (Fall) Kinslow, Valerie (Winter)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
Ensemble : Normally open only to Voice and Piano Performance students. Study of the standard song repertoire with emphasis on the singer and pianist as partners. A public recital will be given at the end of each term.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Fall) McMahon, Michael (Winter)
2 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
Ensemble : Study of song repertoire for singers and pianists.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Fall) McMahon, Michael (Winter)
Ensemble : An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Weman Eriksson, Lena; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; Kinslow, Valerie; Michaud, Natalie (Fall) Kinslow, Valerie; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Beghin, Tom; Michaud, Natalie; Jennejohn, Matthew Dixon; Weman Eriksson, Lena (Winter)
Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
Ensemble : An ensemble of 16 voices performing challenging repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Since the expectation is a level of performance equivalent to a professional chamber ensemble, singers wishing to join this group should have had considerable ensemble experience, and advanced vocal and sight-reading skills.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
Note: May be taken instead of Choral Ensemble.
Ensemble : Students enrolling in Choral Ensembles will be assigned to one of the above groups.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Hansen, Patrick; Ouimet, Francois (Fall) Hansen, Patrick; Schubert, Peter N; Ouimet, Francois (Winter)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
Section 001 Chamber Singers: a group of approximately 24 mixed voices which explores the a cappella repertoire of all periods as well as works with chamber accompaniment.
Section 002 Concert Choir: an ensemble of approximately 60 voices (S.A.T.B.) which performs the repertoire from all periods appropriate to a group of this size.
Section 003 University Chorus: a mixed chorus of approximately 100 which performs a variety of choral material including both traditional and popular selections.
Section 004 Women's Chorale: an ensemble of approximately 40 women stressing the fundamentals of singing and ensemble participation.
Ensemble : Ensemble for contemporary music - instruments and voice.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Bourgogne, Guillaume; Gort, Cristian (Fall) Bourgogne, Guillaume; Gort, Cristian (Winter)
4 hours
Prerequisite: Audition.
Music Theory and Analysis : Expanded harmonic resources of the 19th century (e.g., advanced chromaticism including enharmonic reinterpretation and symmetrical division). Analysis of characteristic small and large forms. Writing and analytical skills with a goal toward perceiving how levels of musical structure interact.
Terms: Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Rusch, René; Cherney, Brian; Biamonte, Nicole; Wild, Jonathan; Thomson, Sten-Paul (Winter) Biamonte, Nicole (Summer)
Music Theory and Analysis : Exploration of 20th and 21st century organizations of pitch, rhythm, timbre etc. Written and analytical skills for the purpose of gaining insight into the compositional techniques and aesthetics of this repertoire.
Terms: Fall 2013, Summer 2014
Instructors: Hasegawa, Robert (Fall) Hasegawa, Robert (Summer)
3 hours
Prerequisite: MUTH 251
Musicianship : Changing metres; chord voicings and atonal pitch collections; modulating tonal melodies and score reading of transposing instruments; harmonic progression including chromatic chords; two-part passages.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Asly, Monica (Fall) Davidson, Thomas; Guzik, John W P; Asly, Monica (Winter) Asly, Monica (Summer)
2 credits from Musicianship;
6 credits from Music History, Literature, or Performance Practice
2 credits from:
Musicianship : Extended tonal and post-tonal harmonic and contrapuntal structures, rhythmic practices of the 20th and 21st century, score reading.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Davidson, Thomas; Mariner, Justin B (Fall) Asly, Monica; Mariner, Justin B (Winter) Mariner, Justin B (Summer)
Prerequisite: MUSP 241
Musicianship : Fundamental musicianship issues in the context of performance with an emphasis on intonation accuracy, rhythm, voice-leading and sound texture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUSP 141
Musicianship : Principles of improvisation and ornamentation for music before 1800, including harmonic progressions and voice-leading and contrapuntal patterns for instrumentalists and singers, along with examples of ornamented vocal and instrumental works from 17th and 18th century sources.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUSP 241
Musicianship : Choral sightsinging of mensural notation, with a focus on white notation c. 1420-1600. Development of basic fluency in the notation, interpretation of values in triple meter, addition of accidentals given the contrapuntal context as perceived aurally, Renaissance solmisation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: MUSP 241
6 credits selected from:
Music History and Literature : Topics in American and European non-German song repertoire from the eighteenth century to the present. Issues discussed may include the role of song in national music culture, art song and folk song, national styles and poetic traditions, text-music relationships, and performance practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Music History and Literature : History of opera from its origins in the musical, literary, and philosophical models available to the Florentine Camerata to the end of the baroque. The development of opera will be studied from the perspective of artistic style and in the light of historical, political, social, and economic conditions.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Music History and Literature : Mozart's operas and the seria, buffa, and Singspiel traditions. Ottocento opera, grand opera, and cross-fertilization between France and Italy. German Romantic opera. Wagner. Eastern European opera. Verismo and fin-de-siècle opera in Vienna and Paris. Sociology of opera. Emphasis on critical understanding of music's role in articulating drama.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Huebner, Steven (Winter)
Music History and Literature : Major early twentieth-century works by Debussy, Strauss, Schreker, Bartók, Stravinsky and Schoenberg. Opera in Europe between the Wars including operas of Berg, Milhaud, Krenek, Hindemith and Weill. Politics, sociology, and literature in relationship to musical style. Approaches since 1945 in selected works by Britten, Henze, Zimmermann, Ligeti, Somers and Glass.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Whitesell, Lloyd (Fall)
Music History and Literature : Survey of the German Lied from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, focusing on songs and song cycles by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Topics include text, musical form and text-music relationships, melodic style and harmonic organization, accompaniment, and performance practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.