Module Specifications
How will I learn? Details of the learning and teaching methods for each unit of this module are given within each relevant section. How will I be assessed? Details of the assessment methods for each unit of this module are given within each relevant section. The cumulative marks of each unit form the total mark for Expressive Voice which forms 15% of the final mark for the MA.
UNITS OF EXPRESSIVE VOICE:
PURE VOICE Tutors: Contact hours: Timetable:
Lloyd Wylde 31.5 1 x 1.5 hr classes a week, Autumn term and Spring term
Outline This unit aims to develop a free, flexible, centred, connected, grounded voice, that is alive with dynamic and expressive possibility, to serve the variation of textual styles and contexts of delivery, you may work in. Beginning with exploration of habitual voice, habitual body and habitual breath, you will explore the release of inhibitive tensions, which will open up body and breath awakening your vocal potential. The acquisition and development of technical vocal exercises grounded in anatomical and psychophysical knowledge aim to connect you with your individual sound opening the dynamics of resonance, pitch and diction to imaginative vocal expression. The methodologies of Barbara Houseman, Kristin Linklater, Patsy Rodenburg, Catherine Fitzmaurice and Cicely Beery amongst others, will be explored. What will I be expected to achieve? On successful completion of the module you will be expected to be able to: Skills • • • • • •
Acknowledge and release habitual psychophysical tensions. Work with a fully connected, free resonant, forward placed and responsive voice. Work with vocal stamina and consistency. Engage in precise, flexible, muscular, dynamic articulation/ diction. Demonstrate the sophisticated use of dynamic, imaginatively applied taught vocal skills, to communicate through various forms, structures and genres of language. Demonstrate the aptitude of fulfilling the demands of vocal use while working on stage, film and TV.
Knowledge and understanding • Understand how your physical and vocal habits impact on your voice and speech • Have an academic understanding of vocal anatomy and physiology. 59
