Vocal Coaching

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Acquire an increased understanding of musical style, idiomatic language and diction, collaboration with pianist, stage deportment, storytelling, and developing a unique sense of personal artistry.
• Show improvement in musicianship: accuracy of rhythm and pitch; understanding of legato, articulations, phrasing, expressive breathing, singing harmonically as well as linearly, and of musical styles.
• Develop and/or refine the ability to authentically sing in at least the following languages: English, Italian, French, and German.
• Demonstrate improvement in stage presence, including the use of appropriate facial and body energy.
• Improve translation and pronunciation skills by writing the IPA and translations in the musical scores for all literature covered in coaching sessions.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Evidence of appropriate practice and preparation for weekly sessions	Not specified.
Notification to coaching instructor as early as possible in the semester of all Performance Goals including dates, so that a preparation plan can be designed and implemented	Not specified.
Updates to instructor of changes of Performance Goals including date changes	Not specified.
Late cancellations and/or more than 1 unexcused coaching may result in a lowered grade, with each additional absence weighing in on the final grade earned	Not specified.

Attendance/Participation:

You must notify the instructor at least 24 hours in advance if you will be absent. Absences may or may not be rescheduled depending on the nature of the illness and advance notice of absence; however, if the instructor has to miss a lesson, it will be rescheduled as soon as possible.

Do not attend sessions and do formally cancel if you have any illness symptoms. The instructor will try to make up the sessions if notified in advance. In case of an outbreak of virus on campus, the coachings will be moved to Zoom format, and singers will inform the instructor of repertoire plans and provide scans of music if requested.

Communicate absences via both text and email as early as possible. Missing more than one coaching without prior notice will result in your grade being lowered. Two or more coachings missed with or without notice will result in an even lower grade.

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

No course materials are required.