2024

Vocal Training

Name: Vocal Training
Code: ARC12609L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Teatro

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To develop and to deepen the contents that were developed in the obligatory Voice related curricular units in the the two previous semesters, offering the students principles, techniques and methodologies that can serve as reference to structuralize a daily vocal rotine. This curricular unit will be solely conditional to the frequency in the 5th and 6th semester.

Contents

Relaxation and warmth of the body
Breath
Exploration of resonances
Articulation
• Vocal training based on previous knowledge of body relaxation training and the identification of the
body as a voice support
• Vocalisation based on vocal placement, projection,
resonances and good articulation of the spoken voice.
• Reading of small texts according to the requirements of the stage disciplines to which this chair serves as support.

Teaching Methods

Practical teaching method
Ocasional magistral method

Continuous evaluation: Participation, motivatiom, evolution, voice liberation will be 30% of the final global mark)

1st open intermediate assessment class: where students will demonstrate vocal training (warm-up exercises) 30%-
2nd open final evaluation class: where students will demonstrate vocal warm-up and presentation of excerpts from texts (monologue, poem or scene from Project UC)– 40%

Teaching Staff