MM in Performance - Voice

PERFORMANCE: VOICE     

Requires a minimum of 32 credit hours.

Program Advisor: Ellen Chickering, ellenc@usm.maine.edu

Nine credits of applied music in voice (four semesters of 3 credits each) will be scheduled as private lessons and will be supplemented with Studio Class participation. Students are required to take jury examinations in each semester of enrollment in voice until the recital is successfully completed.

During the final semester of graduate study, the student will be required to present one complete recital from memory (minimum requirements: 60' of music with no more than 12' of ensemble performance) demonstrating evidence of interpretive skill and vocal technique in English, French, German and Italian repertory.

In addition to the general exit examinations in history and Theory, students must pass Italian, French and German diction at the graduate level; pass a written comprehensive exam in Vocal Literature; an examination in Sight Singing ability; be able to sight read a simple chordal accompaniment to a song; and accompany a singer with songs from a prepared list.

Minimum proficiencies

• Completion of 2 semesters of undergraduate Italian and 2 semesters of undergraduate French or German
• Diction pronunciation proficiency exam in French, Italian and German
• Ability to play at the piano - I, IV, V, I chord progression in keys up to 3 sharps and flats
• Ability to sight read a hymn or similar chordal song accompaniment