MVAP.MFA - Master of Fine Arts - Voicearts Performance

VoiceArts (MFA)

• MLSN601 Hour Lessons as assigned (4 classes)

• MPRF510 Graduate Vocal Coaching

• MBLExxx World Music Ensemble (recommended in MFA1)

• TWO classes in advanced History/Literature/Theory/Analysis chosen from

  • MHST500-509 Music Cultures

  • MHST525 Survey of Sound Art

  • MHST530 Studies in Experimental Pop

  • MHST531 Studies in Avant-Rock & Noise

  • MHST542 Women in Western Music History

  • MHST545 Innovative Vocal Music since the 1960s

  • MHST545 [r]evolution of Solo Vocal Lit

  • MHST546 Opera AND 

  • MHST610 The Elastic Voice

  • MHST600–698

  • MTHY510 Acoustics for Musicians

  • MTHY600–698

• FOUR Experimental Voice classes chosen from:

  • MAIC654 Sounding the Voice

  • MCMP625 & 626 Experimental Music Workshop I & II

  • MPRF526 Experimental Voice

  • MPRF651 Singing the Books

  • MPRF652 Contemporary Vocal Techniques

  • MPRF653 What kind of text is that? 

  • MPRF655 Dada's Divas

  • MPRF657 Land, Ritual, Performance

  • Other experimental voice courses as approved by mentor

• MPRF610 Physiology of the Voice

• Pedagogy Course, chosen from (1 course):

  • AAIC523 Practice & Pedagogy: ArtPilot

  • MPCD599 Graduate Independent Project: Pedagogy

  • MPCD603 Teaching Artistry

  • MPCD604 Pedagogy: Best Practices

  • MPCD620 Teaching the Voice

• MFOR503 Voice Forum ( 2 classes or as assigned by mentor)

• Performance project or ensemble electives, chosen in consultation with mentor chosen from (4 classes):

  • MBLE500 The Ensemble

  • MBLE560 The Baltic Voice

  • MBLE601 Chamber Singers

  • MBLE602 Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

  • MBLE606 Chamber Music

  • MBLE609 Period Instrument Ensemble

  • MBLE610 Improvisation Ensemble

  • MBLE625 Creative Electronic Ensemble

  • MBLE628 Collaborative Music Ensemble

  • MBLE650 Sonic Boom Ensemble

  • MPRF502 Opera Theater

  • MPRF699 Independent Study

  • Other performance project course as approved by mentor

• Career preparation course chosen from:

  • AART511L Collaborate, Perform, Document

  • MPCD650 Career Design for Musicians

  • MPCD651 Creative Producing for Music

  • MPCD660 Creative Entrepreneurship

  • MTEC617 Media and Web Development

  • TGEN750 Entrepreneurship: The Artist as Entrepreneur

  • Other professional development courses as approved by mentor

• Performance theory or practicum classes outside of Music (2 classes):

  • CCRW548 Source and Archive

  • CCRW557 Feminist Poetics

  • CMWP651 Documentary Strategies

  • CMWP688 Writing and Performing the Self

  • DAIC550 Extreme Body in Performance

  • DCHR501 Institute Dance Composition

  • DCHR560 Creation & Critique

  • DPER560 Performance & Identity

  • FFDP604 Advanced Acting Workshop

  • FPFV673 Acting Bad

  • TACT770 Voice-Over Elective

  • THST530 Grad Seminar: Adaptation

  • THST535 Grad Seminar: Dramaturgy

  • THST545 Grad Seminar: Theater of Witness

  • TGEN510 Institute Acting Techniques I

  • TGEN515 Institute Acting Techniques II

  • TGEN520 Institute Directing I

  • TGEN525 Institute Directing II

  • TGEN575 Inst Producing: Prac Skills

  • TGEN660 Improvisation

  • TGEN661 Improvisation

  • TIMM571 Performing Object Laboratory

  • THST510 Surv World Theater Arts

  • TWFP680 Special Topics in Writing

  • Other performance theory or practicum class as approved by mentor

• Courses in movement techniques (2 classes) chosen from:

  • DCHR601 Graduate Advanced Improv

  • DTCH500 Institute Dance Contemporary

  • DTCH552 The Conscious Dancer

  • DTCH603 Institute Dance Ballet

  • DTCH604 Institute Dance Special Topics

  • MBLE550 African Dance

  • MBLE552 Balinese Dance

  • MBLE554/556 Javanese Dance

  • MPRF505 Alexander Technique for Musicians

  • MPRF611 Bodies and Voice

  • TACT570/571 Intro to Tai Chi

  • TGEN535 Alexander Technique Fundamentals

  • Other movement class as approved by mentor

• MFOR600 Artists-in-Residence Week (2 classes)

• Winter Session (2 units of coursework taken in January)

• MPRF590 Mid-Residence Performance Project/Recital

• MPRF690 Graduation Jury & Performance Project/Recital

• MCMP690 Graduation Portfolio Review

• Electives (to fulfill 60-unit degree requirement)

The VoiceArts specialization requires a review of each student's professional portfolio development each semester as a component of the lesson requirement.