Objectives and competences

• to awake one’s musical creating with singing, to bring better knowledge and spread the artistic horizon in the sphere of music, • to qualify the singing organ, • to develop the voice, • to express the text, • to join text and music.

Content (Syllabus outline)

• choir singing of different ways and eras, • singing Slovene (and foreign) folk songs, • singing artificial Slovene and foreign works – renaissance, baroque, romantic and contemporary- with consideration about the choice of compositions for a big choir of the Pedagogical Faculty. Vocal training: • exercises for the diaphragm, • warming up, • vowel equalizing, • register equalizing, • exercises for voice volumenizing.

Learning and teaching methods

• group work, • role-playing games, • disscusion.

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

• the singer in choir gets some knowledge in singing techniques and recognizes different music works and types, • link theoretical and practical knowledge, • each singer can extend his/her own knowledge in school’s choral singing or in his own town’s choir.

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

Readings

• Musik in der Schule. 3, Chorbuch für gemischte Stimmen (str. 164). (1953). Möseler. • Leskovar, J. (2001). Mešani zbori (2. natis, str. 1 partitura (55 )). Cerdonis; Zveza kulturnih društev. • Slovenska pesmarica: II. zvezek (str. 1 partitura (220 )). (1900). Družba sv. Mohorja. • Švara, D. (1953). Deset narodnih. II: eno- ali dvoglasno za solo ali zbor s klavirjem (str. 1 partitura (25 )). Državna založba Slovenije. • Vremšak, S. (1997). Otroški in mladinski zbori (1. natis, str. 1 partitura (68 )). Zavod Republike Slovenije za šolstvo.

Prerequisits

There are no specific prerequisits.