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Program Requirements
The Licentiate in Music (L.Mus.) Major Performance Voice is a 101-credit program.
Special Requirements:
1. Continuation in the program requires a minimum grade of A- in practical instruction/exams, ensembles, and voice coaching.
2. Candidates must take the L.Mus. Performance 1 Examination at the end of their first year of study and the L.Mus. Performance 2 and 3 Examinations in each of the next two years if they hope to complete the program in the normal length of time.
Required Performance (52 credits)
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MUIN 250 L.Mus. Practical Instruction 1 (8 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Derome, Denys; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Knox, Hank; Roy, Andre J; Purdy, Winston; Lambert, Michel; Sylvan, Sanford; Huang, Yai-Yun; Marandola, Fabrice; Kutan, Aline; Freeman, Peter (Fall) Knox, Hank (Winter)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: Admission to the L.Mus. program by audition
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MUIN 251 L.Mus. Practical Instruction 2 (8 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : .
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Derome, Denys; Kolomyjec, Joanne; Knox, Hank; Roy, Andre J; Purdy, Winston; Lambert, Michel; Sylvan, Sanford; Huang, Yai-Yun; Marandola, Fabrice; Kutan, Aline; Freeman, Peter (Winter)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: MUIN 250
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MUIN 252 L.Mus. Performance 1 Examination
Overview
Practical Instrument : .
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Note: Complete descriptions are to be found under Examinations and Goals in Practical Subjects in the Music Chapter of the University Calendar.
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MUIN 300 Voice Coaching 1 (2 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Pelletier, Louise; McMahon, Michael; Diamond, Louise; Godin, Olivier (Fall) Pelletier, Louise; Diamond, Louise; Godin, Olivier (Winter)
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MUIN 301 Voice Coaching 2 (2 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Pelletier, Louise; McMahon, Michael; Diamond, Louise; Godin, Olivier (Winter)
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MUIN 350 L.Mus. Practical Instruction 3 (8 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Williams, Thomas (Fall)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: MUIN 251
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MUIN 351 LMus Practical Instruction 4 (8 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : .
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Williams, Thomas (Winter)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: MUIN 350
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MUIN 352 L.Mus. Performance 2 Examination
Overview
Practical Instrument : .
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Note: Complete descriptions are to be found under Examinations and Goals in Practical Subjects in the Music Chapter of the University Calendar.
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MUIN 450 L.Mus. Practical Instruction 5 (8 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Levesque, Stephane; Forget, Normand (Fall)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: MUIN 351
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MUIN 451 LMus Practical Instruction 6 (8 credits)
Overview
Practical Instrument : .
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Levesque, Stephane; Forget, Normand (Winter)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: MUIN 450
Complementary Performance (12 credits)
Large Ensemble Training – during every term of enrolment as a full-time or part-time student.
12 credits from:
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MUEN 496 Opera Studio (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : Coachings, rehearsals, stagings, technical/dress rehearsals in the theatre, and performances in front of an audience.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Hansen, Patrick (Fall) Hansen, Patrick (Winter)
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition
- For undergraduates voice majors students cast in roles in Opera Â鶹AV productions.
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MUEN 563 Jazz Vocal Workshop (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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MUEN 572 Cappella Antica (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 8 to 12 voices specializing in early music. N.B. This ensemble may substitute as a Basic Ensemble in programs that specify Choral Ensemble, with Departmental approval.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Kinslow, Valerie (Fall) Kinslow, Valerie (Winter)
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
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MUEN 578 Song Interpretation 1 (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : Normally open only to Voice and Piano Performance students. Study of the standard song repertoire with emphasis on the singer and pianist as partners. A public recital will be given at the end of each term.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Fall) McMahon, Michael (Winter)
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
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MUEN 579 Song Interpretation 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : .
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Fall) McMahon, Michael (Winter)
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MUEN 580 Early Music Ensemble (1 credit)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 4-6 vocalists and instrumentalists which performs music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Kinslow, Valerie; Plouffe, Helene; Bergeron, Sylvain; Michaud, Natalie; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Beghin, Tom (Fall) Beghin, Tom; MacMillan, Elizabeth H; Kinslow, Valerie; Michaud, Natalie; Bergeron, Sylvain; Plouffe, Helene (Winter)
- Prerequisite: Audition. Prerequisite or corequisite for keyboard players: MUPG 272.
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MUEN 587 Cappella Â鶹AV (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : An ensemble of 16 voices performing challenging repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. Since the expectation is a level of performance equivalent to a professional chamber ensemble, singers wishing to join this group should have had considerable ensemble experience, and advanced vocal and sight-reading skills.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Note: May be taken instead of Choral Ensemble.
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MUEN 593 Choral Ensembles (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : Students enrolling in Choral Ensembles will be assigned to one of the above groups.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Ouimet, Francois (Fall) Wachner, Julian; Ouimet, Francois (Winter)
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
- Section 001 Chamber Singers: a group of approximately 24 mixed voices which explores the a cappella repertoire of all periods as well as works with chamber accompaniment.
- Section 002 Concert Choir: an ensemble of approximately 60 voices (S.A.T.B.) which performs the repertoire from all periods appropriate to a group of this size.
- Section 003 University Chorus: a mixed chorus of approximately 100 which performs a variety of choral material including both traditional and popular selections.
- Section 004 Women's Chorale: an ensemble of approximately 40 women stressing the fundamentals of singing and ensemble participation.
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MUEN 594 Contemporary Music Ensemble (2 credits)
Overview
Ensemble : .
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Gort, Cristian; Lavoie, Jean-Michaël (Fall) Gort, Cristian; Wachner, Julian; Bard, Shalom (Winter)
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Audition.
Diction (8 credits)
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MUPG 210 Italian Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of International Phonetic Alphabet. Study of Italian pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Popescu, Maria-Caliopi (Fall)
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: none
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MUPG 211 French Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of French pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Boudreault-Sevadjian, Therese (Winter)
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: MUPG 210
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MUPG 212 English Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of International Phonetic Alphabet. Study of Standard English pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts with a special emphasis on problematic vowels, diphthongs and consonants.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Koch, Elizabeth (Fall)
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: none
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MUPG 213 German Diction (2 credits)
Overview
Performance : Study of German pronunciation in singing using song and opera texts.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: McMahon, Michael (Winter)
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: MUPG 212
Theory (12 credits)
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MUTH 110 Melody and Counterpoint (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Introduction to principles of melodic and contrapuntal structure through the traditional species of counterpoint: first through fifth species in two parts; first species in three parts. Analysis and compositional modeling of repertoire in medieval-renaissance and 20th-century idioms. Notation, elementary acoustics, review of rudiments.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: Matriculation Music or Â鶹AV Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent. Corequisites: MUSP 129 and MUSP 170 or permission of coordinator or instructor.
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MUTH 111 Elementary Harmony and Analysis (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Diatonic chords, harmonic progression, the concept and practice of tonality, simple modulation, seventh chords and secondary dominants. Small forms from c.1700 to the early 19th Century will be analyzed. Written four-part exercises will be required.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- 4 hours
- Prerequisite: MUTH 110
- Corequisites: MUSP 131 and MUSP 171
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MUTH 210 Tonal Theory and Analysis 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Compositional resources of early and mid-18th Century music. Thorough review of elementary harmonic procedure. Introduction to chromatic alteration and linear chords, and to analysis of imitative and invertible counterpoint. Analysis of common forms of the period c.1700 - 1770, including principal Baroque forms, but not including the Classical sonata.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Sabourin, Carmen (Fall)
- 3 hours
- Prerequisites: MUTH 110 and MUTH 111
- Corequisite: MUSP 229
- Prerequisite or corequisite: MUSP 171
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MUTH 211 Tonal Theory and Analysis 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Music Theory and Analysis : Compositional resources of late 18th- and early 19th-century music. Analysis of forms common to the period c.1770 - 1830, including Classical sonata forms in several media. Writing of short pieces for keyboard, piano and voice, and string quartet.
Terms: Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Caplin, William Earl (Winter) Ferguson, Sean Alastair (Summer)
- 3 hours
- Prerequisite: MUTH 210
- Corequisite: MUSP 231
Musicianship (11 credits)
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MUSP 129 Musicianship 1 (2 credits)
Overview
Musicianship : Rhythm (basic duple-triple divisions); Isolated Sonorities (intervals, triads, tonal-modal collections); non-modulating Tonal Melodic Structures; Score Reading with treble-bass-alto clefs; Atonal Structures (cells with intervals to fifth excluding tritone); species-counterpoint-like Multipart Structures; Repertoire Building (MUTH 110).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- 2 hours, plus 2 hours Choral Solfège Lab
- Prerequisite: Admission to the B.Mus. or L.Mus. program through audition and placement tests in Musicianship (including Keyboard Proficiency) and Theory. Open to students from other Faculties with permission of Musicianship Co-ordinator; Â鶹AV Conservatory Secondary V or equivalent level in Ear Training. Corequisites: MUTH 110 and MUSP 170
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MUSP 131 Musicianship 2 (2 credits)
Overview
Musicianship : Rhythm (quadruple-mixed divisions); Isolated Sonorities (voiced triads, dominant sevenths); chromatically-embellished modulating Tonal Melodic Structures; Score Reading with treble-bass-alto-tenor clefs; Atonal Structures (cells with intervals to seventh); diatonic Harmonic Progressions; Repertoire Building (MUTH 111).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- 2 hours, plus 2 hours Choral Solfège Lab
- Prerequisite: MUSP 129
- Corequisites: MUTH 111 and MUSP 171
- Students must complete three of five Listening Tasks (one of which must be Tonal Melodic Structures) in the final segments of both MUSP 129 and MUSP 131 before proceeding to the next Musicianship course.
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MUSP 170 Musicianship (Keyboard) 1 (1 credit)
Overview
Musicianship : Harmonic, melodic and rhythmic analysis at the keyboard through the study of rudiments, repertoire, chorale/score reading, transposition and harmonization.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
Instructors: Kovacs, Jolan Ilona; Davidson, Thomas; Gavrilova, Julia; Choi, Yoo Kyung (Fall) Kovacs, Jolan Ilona (Winter)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: Matriculation Music or Â鶹AV Conservatory Theory Secondary V or its equivalent.
- Corequisites: MUTH 150 and MUSP 140.
- Course contents parallel with those of MUTH 150 and MUSP 140.
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MUSP 171 Musicianship (Keyboard) 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Musicianship : Building chordal fluency. Harmonic vocabulary including sequences, chromaticism and modulation. Chorale and score reading with transposing instruments and alto/tenor clefs.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Gavrilova, Julia; Pousont, Thomas (Fall) Kovacs, Jolan Ilona; Gavrilova, Julia; Choi, Yoo Kyung (Winter)
- 1 hour
- Prerequisite: MUSP 170
- Corequisites: MUTH 111 and MUSP 131; or MUTH 151 and MUSP 141
- Restriction: All students admitted to B.Mus. and L.Mus. programs, including those with keyboard or guitar as their principal instrument, are required to take MUSP 171 Keyboard Lab, unless exempt on the basis of a placement test. Students who are exempt from MUTH 111 through placement tests must still take MUSP 171 (unless exempt) since this course forms the foundation of keyboard-based musicianship tasks at upper levels. (All Majors in Jazz Performance substitute MUJZ 171 for MUSP 171. Students in Jazz Performance who have completed MUJZ 170 and MUJZ 171, and who transfer to a Department of Theory program, will be required to complete MUSP 171.) Students who do not achieve a continuation pass in MUSP 171 must reregister for the course in the semester immediately following. Students who do not achieve a continuation pass after repeating the course will not be allowed to proceed with further Musicianship or Theory studies until a continuation pass is achieved. Tests for MUSP 171 are held in August-September, December-January, and April-May [as well as during the Summer Session when course(s) offered], the exact dates determined by the Department of Music Research.
- Course contents parallel with those of MUTH 151 and MUSP 141.
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MUSP 172 Keyboard Lab 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Musicianship : Keyboard studies with emphasis on memorization and transposition of diatonic sequences; use of seventh chords in diatonic and chromatic contests; augmented sixth and Neapolitan sixth chords, pivot chords, enharmonic and common-tone modulation; practical command of orchestral score analysis at the keyboard.
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Kovacs, Jolan Ilona; Pousont, Thomas (Fall) Pousont, Thomas (Winter) Davidson, Thomas (Summer)
- Prerequisites: MUSP 131, MUSP 171 and MUTH 111
- Corequisites: MUSO 229, MUTH 210
- Course contents parallel those of MUTH 210, MUSP 229
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MUSP 229 Musicianship 3 (2 credits)
Overview
Musicianship : Rhythm (six-, five- and seven-part subdivisions); Isolated Sonorities (triads, dominant, supertonic, leading-tone sevenths); Tonal Melodic Structures tonicizing V, III (also vi, v); Score Reading with treble-bass-alto-tenor clefs; Atonal Structures (basic cell combinations); dance-suite Multipart Structures; Harmonic Progressions including sequential paradigms; Repertoire Building (MUTH 210).
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Davidson, Thomas; Guzik, John W P (Fall) Guzik, John W P (Winter) Mariner, Justin B (Summer)
- 2 hours
- Prerequisite: MUSP 131
- Corequisite: MUTH 210 and MUSP 172
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MUSP 231 Musicianship 4 (2 credits)
Overview
Musicianship : Rhythm (eight-part subdivisions, smaller note values); Isolated Sonorities (applied, neapolitan, augmented sixth chords); Tonal Melodic Structures tonicizing related scale-steps; Score Reading with treble-bass-alto-tenor-soprano clefs; Atonal Structures (basic cell combinations); instrumental-texture Multipart Structures; applied chords and tonicizations in Harmonic Progression; Repertoire Building (MUTH 211).
Terms: Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Summer 2011
Instructors: Asly, Monica (Fall) Davidson, Thomas; Guzik, John W P (Winter) Mariner, Justin B (Summer)
- 2 hours, plus Keyboard lab
- Prerequisite: MUSO 172 and MUSP 229
- Corequisite: MUTH 211
History (6 credits)
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MUHL 184 History Survey Before 1750 (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : Representative works from the Carolingian Renaissance to 1750 and their relation to the social and cultural milieu. Basic reference works. Developments in notation, instruments, and performance practice.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Corequisites: MUTH 110 and MUSP 129 OR permission of instructor
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MUHL 185 History Survey After 1750 (3 credits)
Overview
Music History and Literature : Historical and stylistic investigation of music and musical life from circa 1750 to the present, i.e., the transition to the Classical period, the period of C.P.E. Bach and the Mannheim, Berlin, and Viennese symphonists, to recent developments, including electronic and music technology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
- Corequisites: MUTH 111 and MUSP 131 OR permission of instructor