Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Division of voices may be adapted to suit enrollment (SATB, SAB, SSA)
 

This course is primarily a music performance course.  The majority of the course will be taught as a directed rehearsal

• Students will be able to learn choral parts aurally and through music reading
• Students will be able to execute musical directions of choir director and make appropriate notation in music score
• Students will be able to accurately follow the conducting pattern of the director
• Students will be able to hold a vocal line in three or four part singing
• Students will be able to sing with musicality appropriate to musical style
• Students will be able to to  perform publicly as a member of choir

Attendance
Recital participation
Concert reports
Class participation
Score notation
Part singing tests

Performance Concepts and Practicum
… Historical styles:  Renaissance, Baroque, Classical
… Modern, Multicultural and non-Western works
… A cappella or accompanied
… Secular and Sacred works (madrigals, motets)
… Performance practice and etiquette
Tools
… IPA for specific foreign language works (diction)
… Musicality & its notation
… Dynamics, phrasing, articulation
… Conducting patterns
COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS
The following skills are expected to br achieved to successfully meet the minimum requirement ("C" or "Pass" ) of the course

• Attend rehearsals and learn individual parts
• Follow musical ideas as instructed by choir director
• Learn , prepare and perform vocal music from printed notation
• Accurately notate and execute musical ideas as instructed by choir director
• Hold harmony in conjunction with other vocal parts
• Accurately learn foreign language lyrics to choral works.