Neue Musik Gesang - Einführung
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- Subject according curriculum
- Contemporary Music: Voice
- Teachers
- Frauke Aulbert
- Scope
- Wednesdays, 12:15–2:00 p.m.
- Room
- Lila 007 (Jazz)
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
Exploring and Experimenting with a Wide Range of Contemporary Vocal Music
This course prepares singers to engage with new music in their professional practice. Together, we will explore and experiment with works representing various contemporary musical aesthetics, as well as their most important precursors. In the process, advanced vocal techniques are taught, and a healthy and sustainable approach to using them is developed.
Course topics:
• Approaches to complex scores: contemporary notation, graphic elements in scores, microtonality, and complex rhythmic structures.
• Fundamental vocal techniques of New Music, including recitative, non-vibrato, breathy voice, and various vocal timbres, as well as advanced vocal techniques and cross-cultural practices from folk, classical, and popular music, such as overtone singing or beatboxing.
• Improvisation: How can I explore and experiment with my voice in a healthy and sustainable way?
• Repertoire selection: Which works are suitable for my own voice? Students are invited to suggest pieces of their own. Together, we will engage with key works from the contemporary vocal repertoire, including *Sequenza III* by Luciano Berio, *Aria* by John Cage, and *Récitations* by Georges Aperghis, as well as works by younger and emerging female*, queer, and BIPOC composers, selected based on the participants’ interests and the respective course themes.
• Communicating through one’s own voice and collaborating with composers.The seminar’s final concert will take place on January 27, 2027, in the organ studio.
The seminar can be offered in German, English, or Spanish.//
Exploring and Experimenting with a Broad Spectrum of Contemporary Vocal Music
This course is designed to prepare singers for encounters with contemporary music in their professional practice. Together, we will explore and experiment with works representing diverse contemporary musical aesthetics as well as their most important predecessors. Students will develop extended vocal techniques while learning healthy and sustainable approaches to their use.
Topics include:
• Approaching complex scores: contemporary notation, graphic elements in scores, microtonality, and complex rhythmic structures.
• Fundamental vocal techniques in contemporary music, including Sprechgesang, non-vibrato singing, breathy phonation, and vocal timbre, as well as extended vocal techniques and cross-cultural practices drawn from folk, classical, and popular music traditions, such as overtone singing and beatboxing.
• Improvisation: How can I explore and experiment with my voice in a healthy and sustainable way?
• Finding repertoire that suits your own voice. Students are encouraged to bring pieces of their own choosing. We will study key vocal works from the contemporary repertoire, including Luciano Berio’s *Sequenza III*, John Cage’s *Aria*, and Georges Aperghis’s *Récitations*, alongside works by younger and emerging women*, queer, and BIPOC composers, selected based on the participants’ interests and the themes of each session.
• Discussing one’s own voice and collaborating with composers.The final concert of the seminar will take place on January 27, 2027, in the Orgelstudio.
The class can be taught in German, English, or Spanish.- Literature
Recommended Reading Hanna Aurbacher-Liska: The Voice in Contemporary Music (basics, good first overview, not entirely up to date) Nicolas Isherwood: The Techniques of Singing (good overview for later, more in-depth studies, not entirely up to date)
- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Comments
The class can be taught in German, English, or Spanish.
- Modules
- Wahlmodul 1 Gesang