Course Day and Time:  By appointment, as assigned by the Director of the school of music, with approved instructor.  (Monday – Friday)

 Credits: 1-2

Office Hours: 12:00-1:00 Monday, 2:00-4:00 & 7:00-8:00 Tuesday, 7:00-8:00 Thursday, and by appointment: Please my schedule, which is posted on the door of my office. If you need to schedule an appointment, please call our administrative assistant, Autumn Nova, (212) 625-0500 ext. 6188.

Phone: (212) 927-1015 Home (917) 825 8697 cell   (212) 625-0500 ext. 6187 Office

E-Mail dana.talley@nyack.edu 

 Mary Carey Home 718-961-3041 Cell 917-568-4641 careymev@christtabernacle.org

Sharmi Harper Home 212-874-3669 Cell 701-240-7603           HCharmsetc@aol.com

 Course Description:

 Voice lessons are available for all students, non-music majors and majors alike.  The course gives Applied Music credits.

This class will help the developing musician or interested student understand the centrality of singing to all music study, whether one is a beginner or has advanced training, to better serve the Lord in song.  This course will focus on the time-tested theories of bel canto singing -- the goal of which is to produce beautiful tone, understandable words, and ease of singing.

The student will learn to:

1.     Express the words, both in meaning and in pronunciation.

2.     Sing in a relaxed an easy manner, which will not hurt the voice and will be pleasant for the listener.

3.     The instructors and students will endeavor to incorporate the Nyack College Core Values into the repertory that will be studied and their performances both on and off campus including a respectful attitude with fellow students, professors, and guests.

CORE VALUES: Nyack College seeks to exalt Jesus Christ and fulfill its mission by being:

Socially Relevant -- Preparing students to serve in ministerial, educational, healing and community-building professions. 

Academically Excellent -- Pursuing academic excellence in the spirit of grace and humility.

Globally Engaged -- Fostering a global perspective within a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Christian academic community.

Intentionally Diverse -- Providing educational access and support to motivated students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

Personally Transforming -- Emphasizing the integration of faith, learning and spiritual transformation.

 OUTLINE OF CLASSES:

Students will meet privately with their instructor and study assigned repertoire and vocal exercises.  Non-music majors will be expected to improve their singing and learn the amount of repertoire individually assigned by their teacher.

Music majors will be expected to meet the following requirements:

• Voice Majors
  4 - 6 songs per semester, completely memorized
  1-2 vocal recital performances per semester

• Instrumental Majors, Interdisc., and Minors
  3 songs per semester, completely memorized
  1 vocal performance strongly encouraged but not required

These requirements have been made according to the average private student’s progress.  Note that the professor may modify this requirement according to the student’s development especially in the student’s first semester.

 Grading:

 Class Participation:  50%

1. PROMPT Attendance (weekly lessons & required recitals)
    

Out-of-class participation:  15%

       2. Practice (See A GENERAL SYLLABUS FOR MUSIC B.A. STUDENTS)

             http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/voice/BA_syllabus.htm

3. Written notebook to be completed by all students

4. Learning of assigned music 35%

      5. All Vocal Performance B.MUS students, including Music Education and Sacred

          Music majors are required to perform every semester on a student recital unless

          they are doing their junior or senior recital that semester.

Required Notebook: (This may be modified by the individual instructor )

 All students will be required to keep a Written Notebook to be presented on their next to last lesson of the semester and graded on the following:
 

1. Short Term and Long Range Goals Summary

2. Lesson Diary

3. Practice Diary

4. Two to Three paragraph Composer Biography on each composer assigned

5. List and Definition of all musical terms included in pieces assigned including foreign and domestic

6. Word for Word Translations of each foreign language assigned piece

7. Poetic Translations of each foreign language assigned piece

8. Final Assessment of progress made at end of each semester

9. Repertoire List, as assigned, to be presented at Juries

10. Juniors and Seniors Recital Journal

11. Other information as assigned

All NOTEBOOK entries (with the possible exception of lesson and practice diaries) must either be word-processed or typed and neatly organized in a three ring binder. This notebook should be a compilation of your work and interest in your 4 - 5 years here at Nyack College. It will provide a valuable resource when you graduate and move into graduate school or teaching. In addition to the diary copies of assigned music should be placed in your notebook.
 

Attendance and Punctuality: 

By signing up for Applied Lessons, you agreed with the College to abide by certain guidelines, and to receive, in return, certain assurances:

 

1. You are expected to adhere to the schedule of lessons as stated at the beginning of the semester.  If you miss a lesson for any reason (including illness) without notifying the teacher 12 hours in advance, the lesson is not made up.

2. If the teacher has excused your absence because of illness, a snow day, a field trip, etc., the teacher will then reschedule a lesson with you. The teacher must also reschedule if he or she is ill. 12 lessons are given during the semester.  One Master Class, or group lesson, may be scheduled in the place of a private lesson at the teacher's discretion.  "Left-over" lessons may be scheduled during finals week when necessary.

3. A lesson cut will result in a "0" grade.  Your semester grade will be reduced after ANY unexcused absence. THERE IS A NO CUT POLICY FOR ALL APPLIED LESSONS! (1/2 letter grade for each absence, after three cuts an F will be given, 10 minutes late for a 1/2 hour lesson is 1/2 a cut and 20 minutes late for an hour lesson is 1/2 a cut))

REPERTORY, TEXTS, RECITALS, AND TOOLS: 

    Required of all students:  24 Italian Songs and Arias of the 17th and 18^th

    Centuries by Hal Leonard Corp. Schirmer, Inc. ISBN: 0793510066 with CD

Repertoire will be assigned only by the instructor, depending on the professor’s assessment of each student's needs.  The student is to provide his or her own sheet music for lessons, as assigned. The school library has a collection of CD-ROM’s which include much of the standard song literature. It is essential that the singing musician have his or her own music, in which notes are made individual to the singer’s needs, and which will be referenced as the student revisits the music in years to come. 

 Each student will need access to the internet for assigned topics and translation tools.  If you do not have some private source of internet access, you are expected to make use of the computer access available to you at school. You are encouraged to take notes of and bring a tape recorder to the lessons.  Access to a CD player will also be helpful for listening assignments.

Recitals: 

Students majoring in Voice are required to perform in at least one Student Recital each semester and must also attend three concerts each semester.  (This was a new requirement for 2007-2008 school year).   

Solo Vocal Recital Requirements: 

Junior recitals and B. A. and Music Education senior recitals are to be 10-12 songs, 30-40 minutes of music not including introductions, intermission, or breaks.  Vocal Performance B.MUS. Senior recitals are to be about 20 songs, or 60-75 minutes of music. 

1.    Choose songs appropriate for the student’s vocal type.

2.    Choose some easy songs and a few that stretch their ability

3.    For BM candidates a song cycle is recommended but not mandatory

4.    Plan at least two to three selections from early or Baroque, Classical, Romantic era, and contemporary.  (Three periods for Jr. Recital)

5.    Additions could be either Opera, Show music, and/Sacred selections but cannot be the majority of the repertoire. Two arias maximum, for a BM candidate and 3 spirituals.  Broadway selections for BM students should be reserved for encores unless they are in a classical style.

6.    Represent all 4 major languages for a senior recital and 3 for a junior recital.  Additions OR SUBSTITUTIONS could include Spanish, Russian, or Latin, etc.

7.    Music must be chosen with the aid and approval of your teacher.

8.    All recital music must be memorized one month before the recital for a recital jury which will be 20 minutes long. 

Required Repertory: 

This is a guide as each student will have individual needs.  All repertory must be approved by the teacher.  Generally, each student should try to have five songs memorized each semester for one hour students and 3 for ½ hour students.  While this is not absolute, all songs learned will be listed on the jury forms, and we should try to maintain this level of scholarship.  If a student consistently does not learn enough repertory they will fail their jury and be dropped as majors.  Repertory will be assigned appropriate for the age and ability of the singer.  If voice is the secondary instruments, or the student is a non-major, requirements are entirely up to the teacher as is recital participation.  However, Education Majors are required to perform and do juries each semester and if voice is the second instrument they need perform only once a year.  

Repertory Guidelines:  Entering students should perform at least two contrasting compositions.  To enter the four-year course in voice, the student should be able to sing with a clear sound, on pitch, with good phrasing and musical perception in clear English.  The students should also demonstrate their knowledge of the rudiments of music and their ability to sight-read a simple song. To be considered for a scholarship the student must show a voice of promise in two different languages. The student should have an elementary knowledge of the piano if at all possible. 

First Year:  Technical requirements: proper command of legato and breathing; improved ability in diction in English and Italian, consistent sound blending throughout the registers, and an understanding of the dynamic range of the voice.  Vocalizes according to the need of the student and the repertory should be contrasting in both style and tempo.  At least ten new songs required, five to be sung from memory, each semester.  Christian classics, especially Spirituals, 16^th century English, and Italian arias, oratorio arias, Folk Songs, contemporary art songs or Broadway arias of moderate difficulty.  Individual requirements including a recommended listening list of vocal repertoire may be assigned by the teacher.  

Second Year:  Continuation of everything above and begin studies in coloratura technique and/or accompanied and secco recitatives and at least one Oratorio aria by Mendelssohn, Handel, Haydn or Mozart.  Begin the study of German lieder; simple operatic arias; and add American repertoire, such as Copland, or Barber.  

Third Year: Continuation of everything above and add a coloratura aria with a secco recitative. Study more advanced German lieder and add French art songs.  More difficult operatic arias; arias from the vocal works of J.S. Bach; more difficult contemporary songs; Russian and/or Spanish songs.  Junior recital.  

Fourth Year:  Preparation of senior recital.  The recital should include the major representative works from song and opera literature.  Participation in Chamber Music, Opera Workshop, or Early music ensemble is required in the senior year is suggested each year of attendance. 

Information Literacy Requirement:  You will be required to access the following website for further information to aid you in your study of singing:    

1. The student will visit the class website: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/voice/mus234.htm

and submit a one page evaluation of the contents making suggestions for additions. This will be done at the beginning and at the end of the semester.

2. The student will look at the following Webliography to aid in concert attendance and make at least one addition to the list.

3. The student will sign in to naxosmusiclibrary.com to prepare their assigned songs.  The login is NYACK and the password is NYACK

 Free Concerts:

92nd Street YM & YWHA http://www.92y.org/

The Brooklyn Academy of Music:http://www.bam.org/

Brooklyn Center: http://www.brooklyncenter.com/

City Center http://www.citycenter.org/

Dixon Place http://www.dixonplace.org/

The Irish Arts Center http://www.irishartscenter.org/

The Japan Society http://www.japansociety.org/

The Juilliard School http://www.juilliard.edu/

La Mama ETC http://www.lamama.org/nowplaying_frame.htm

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts http://www.lincolncenter.org/

Miller Theatre, Columbia University http://www.millertheater.com/

New York Philharmonic http://newyorkphilharmonic.org/

NY State Theater http://www.nycballet.com/about/aboutnyst.html

This includes the NYC Opera and NYC Ballet

Metropolitan Opera http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/home.aspx

New York International Fringe Festival  http://www.fringenyc.org/

Radio City Music Hall http://www.radiocity.com/

Symphony Space http://www.symphonyspace.org/

Town Hall http://www.the-townhall-nyc.org/

Manhattan School of Music: http://www.msmnyc.edu/ 

Additional Links: All of the links on this page can be found at the following website: http://www.ncmcmusic.com/links.html

 Nyack College School of Music Websites:

 NYC School of Music Website:  http://www.nyack.edu/music/nyc

NYC School of Music Academic websites: http://www.ncmcmusic.com/

MUS 213: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/Mus213/mus213.htm

MUS 214: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/Mus214/mus214.htm

MUS 319: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/mus319/mus319.htm

MUS 320: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/FNA/FNA231/music.htm

FNA 115: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/FNA/FNA115/115audio.htm

FNA 111: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/voice/Fna111.htm

FNA 231: http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/FNA/FNA231/Fna231.htm

Chorale Page: http://www.ncmcmusic.com/gpage1.html

Nyack College: http://www.nyackcollege.edu/ and http://www.nyack.edu/

Nyack Rockland School of Music: http://www.nyackcollege.edu/2005.php?page=MusicWelcome 

http://www.afrovoices.com/index.html
http://www.afrovoices.com/music.html,
http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Others.html
http://www.cssa.org.uk/music/
http://www.hoasm.org/IVL/IVLSpanishMasters.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_composers
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/music/musich1.html
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/music/musich3.html 

Sheet music, CD’s, and equipment may be obtained at any of the following retailers: 

Patelson's Music House:  http://www.patelsons.com

160 West 56th Street (212) 757-5587 (THE resource for the classical musician, at 7th Ave. behind Carnegie Hall) 

Juilliard School Bookstore: http://www.bookstore.juilliard.edu/

60 Lincoln Center Plaza, (212) 799-5000 (note that this is in the same plaza as the Performing Arts Library – very handy when you’ve been studying hard and found a music book that you’d like to buy for yourself)

 Colony Record & Radio Ctr. Inc., 1619 Broadway (212) 265-2050

(particularly good for Broadway selections)

 Carl Fischer Inc.  http://www.moravianmusic.org/publishers.htm

65 Bleeker St Fl 8, (212) 777-0900

T.I.S. Music Catalog:  http://www.tismusic.com/

J.W. Pepper: http://www.jwpepper.com/

CD World  http://www.cdworld.com

Citidex guide to all the music stores in NYC: http://www.citidex.com/646.htm#C7231

 Library resources:

Nyack College:   http://www.nyack.edu/2005.php?page=LibraryHomepage

New York Public Library: http://www.nypl.org/ 

Reference materials, recordings, repertoire, and even a listening center may be found at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza (212) 870-1630.  Any person residing or attending college in New York may request and receive a free public library card. 

Worldwide Internet Music Resources which include: http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/ 

In addition to this syllabus, there will be resources for Vocal Literature, reference material, repertoire, and many links will be posted.  Music majors will also be required to follow the guidelines of, A GENERAL SYLLABUS FOR MUSIC B.A. STUDENTS, revised January 2006 and the student Handbook, Fall, 2006.  http://www.songsofpeace.com/ncmcmusic/voice/BA_syllabus.htm

 STUDENT HANDBOOK REQUIREMENT:  

In addition to the information in the college catalog, all students are responsible for the requirements, regulations, and information in the NCMC Music Handbook.  Please put the following link in your browser:
 http://www.ncmcmusic/Handbook 

Learning Disabilities:  Any student who has a learning disability is encouraged to speak privately with the professor or with Professor Adelaide Pabon the 504 coordinator for Nyack College/New York City.  Any student eligible for and requesting academic accommodations due to a disability is required to provide a letter of accommodation from Academic Support Services within the first two weeks of the beginning of the class.