Elements and Performance Criteria
- Follow safe voice practices
- Apply understanding of basic anatomy and physiology to breath control, voice production and articulation for speech and singing
- Demonstrate correct physical posture and stance to enhance efficient breathing and voice production
- Discuss with relevant personnel activities and factors that inhibit or damage voice, voice projection and singing
- Perform relaxation and warm-up routines suitable for the voice in performance
- Practise technical control and vocal range
- Apply vocal techniques to show freeing and breathing exercises, and flexibility and control of articulation
- Reinforce strengths of voice and throat by undertaking ongoing exercises to maintain and develop posture, breathing control and vocal range
- Extend personal potential by practising intricate arrays of sound through speech and voice exercises
- Express different sounds using a range of the body’s resonators in voice and speech exercises
- Implement methods for maintaining and developing vocal register and resonance
- Practise vocal expression required for a range of text types
- Interpret a variety of meanings and vocal expressions in a range of dramatic text styles and performance circumstances
- Locate vocal characterisations and dramatic or emotive nuances in texts
- Apply appropriate control of vocal techniques in a range of vocal expressions from a variety of dramatic texts
- Extend comic and dramatic qualities in a range of texts
- Practise diction, timing, voice adaptation, dialects and accents through a variety of performance texts
- Observe correct protocols and cultural maintenance where text or stories with cultural content are to be used in performances
- Apply dramatic vocal techniques in a range of performance circumstances
- Apply understanding of the principles of non-verbal communication to changes of tone, timbre of voice and projection of vocal sound
- Apply dramatic or emotive nuances when performing vocal expression of characters from texts
- Adapt use of voice, speech, body, emotions and dramatic licence appropriate to context of texts in solo and ensemble performances
- Use pitch, pace and pause skilfully and imaginatively
- Apply range, inflection and tone to convey meaning
- Produce improvisation responses during performances
- Discuss performance with relevant personnel and use feedback to identify and develop ways to improve own vocal performance techniques