Students with previous singing experience will continue to grow their vocal music technique in this course. Singers will further develop their music reading and notation skills as they explore multiple genres of music including Jazz, Oratorio, Soul, Opera, Musical Theater, Country, Blues, Pop, Barbershop, Madrigals, and Gospel.
Students will also begin to learn about music arrangement and composition, building skills necessary to compose and record their own songs for solo or small-group singing. Students will work on self-improvement by fostering and developing greater self-awareness, confidence, and expression.
Students will develop an appreciation for the vocal art as a cultural force in a civilized world and learn ways in which singing is used in culture and in individual lives. Students will continue developing skill in listening, reading and performing vocal music as it opens an avenue of personal expression that provides the performer deeper understanding of the self and a way to evoke images, feelings, and emotions that communicate not only sound but sense (meaning) to others.