Functional Music Skills (Voice)

Catalog description

This course is designed to develop course participants' functional music-making skills necessary for clinical practice. The primary focus will be on clinical voice through developing and facilitating a diverse repertoire of songs to meet the therapeutic needs of clients across a variety of clinical populations and settings. A variety of styles will be explored through sight-reading, transposition, creating lead sheets, and facilitating group music making experiences. An emphasis will be placed on vocal re-creation, vocal improvisation, and song improvisation, used in music therapy clinical practice.