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Since its inception, the American Broadway industry has flourished and grown to include numerous vocal styles and techniques. The early twenty-first century has seen a rapid increase in demand for collegiate courses and instructors pertaining to music theater. It has therefore become necessary for voice instructors to be equally comfortable teaching both music theater and classical techniques such as bel canto. This document serves as a resource for instructors seeking more information on defining and teaching vocal styles in music theater including legit, mix, and belt. The first two chapters address the following three questions: 1) What is bel canto and how does the technique function? 2) What is music theater as a vocal style and how do colloquial terms such as legit, mix and belt function within music theater? 3) Are the technical ideas behind bel canto and music theater really that different? The third chapter offers a curriculum for a semester-long course (a hybrid between a song literature class and a performance-based seminar) called Singing Music Theater Styles: From Hammerstein to Hamilton. This course shows the rich development tracing techniques of bel canto through techniques used in contemporary music theater. This document concludes with an annotated bibliography of major sources useful to both the instructors wishing to teach this course and the performers looking to expand their knowledge of singing music theater.
ContributorsBruton, Sara (Author) / Weiss, Stephanie (Thesis advisor) / Feisst, Sabine (Thesis advisor) / Dreyfoos, Dale (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
ContributorsCao, Yuchen (Performer) / Chen, Sicong (Performer) / Soberano, Chino (Performer) / Nam, Michelle (Performer) / Collins, Clarice (Performer) / Witt, Juliana (Performer) / Liu, Jingting (Performer) / Chen, Neilson (Performer) / Zhang, Aihua (Performer) / Jiang, Zhou (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2018-04-25
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This thesis describes a survey of multiple universities accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) that offer wellness courses. The survey sought to identify topics to aid in furthering musicians' wellness. Ideally, the information provided will help aid Arizona State University and other universities create a wellness course for their students. For this research, 65 university music schools, departments, and conservatories were asked to provide information and syllabi on musicians' wellness courses they offered. Thirty-one schools replied and provided information (48%), and syllabi from 38 music courses were collected and analyzed. Content analysis revealed: (1) Topics of musicians' wellness varied from studying a specific technique to general overviews of multiple approaches to wellness; (2) The most frequently discussed topics were health, the Alexander Technique, wellness, prevention, anxiety, anatomy, Body Mapping, alignment, yoga, hearing, relaxation, and neurology; (3) All wellness courses offered one to three credits toward a music degree; (4) The courses were generally taught by a variety of professionals; (5) Intended course audiences ranged from undergraduates to graduate students and included specific vocal/instrumental performance areas. Results indicated that there are many ways that universities successfully aid their students by providing wellness information. Further consideration for wellness course options is suggested in practice and research, with the goal of offering performers strategies for optimal health and wellness.
ContributorsLaird, Julia Swan (Author) / Sullivan, Jill (Thesis director) / Weiss, Stephanie (Committee member) / School of Music (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2017-05
ContributorsChen, Sicong (Performer) / Chen, Neilson (Performer)
Created2018-04-15
ContributorsChen, Sicong (Performer) / Chen, Neilson (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2018-11-09
ContributorsMartinic-Jercic, Borivoj (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2001-02-19
ContributorsMartinic-Jercic, Borivoj (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1995-02-27
ContributorsMartinic-Jercic, Borivoj (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-04-08
ContributorsChen, Sicong (Performer) / Chang, Ruihong (Performer) / Zhang, Dongfang (Performer) / Zhang, Aihua (Performer) / Wu, Xuerlai (Performer) / Shen, Mengyu (Performer) / Song, Haiyuan (Performer) / Liu, Jingting (Performer) / Chen, Po Hsun (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2016-04-28
ContributorsChen, Sicong (Performer) / Lu, Yi (Performer) / Zhang, Ziyang (Performer) / Chen, Neilson (Performer) / Moss, Ayisha (Performer) / LoGiudice, Rosa (Performer) / Zhou, Dan (Performer) / Shen, Mengyu (Performer) / Kim, Olga (Performer) / Zhang, Aihua (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2016-11-13