Professional Music and Song Techniques

Code	551.A0
Diploma	DCS
Sector	04 - Arts
Number of credits	90
Approximate duration in months	36 months
Status	Version approved in 2001. Program modified in 2005.

Note(s)
This program is offered in French: Techniques professionnelles de musique et chanson

Program Objectives

The Professional Music and Song Techniques program aims to train musicians and singers in order to evolve in different styles of popular music. These styles mainly include 20th century music and song produced as entertainment for a mass market: rock, jazz, blues, pop, industry, ethnic, folk, world Beat, etc.

Specialisation A: Composition and Arrangement

This specialization stream allows the students to acquire skills in arranging as well as composing music and songs. Aside from instrumental music and song, people who arrange and compose may be called upon to compose musicals as well as participate in cinema, publicity and multimedia.

Specialization B: Performance

This specialization stream aims to train instrumentalists and popular music singers. As performers, instrumentalists and singers may work as soloists, members of an ensemble or accompanists. They must have a high level of skills in performance and sometimes in improvisation and theatrical expression. Generally musicians work on stage or in a recording studio.

Specialization C: Music Theatre Performance

This specialization aims to train those in theatre performance to be able to perform a play, to sing and to dance.

In addition, to be admitted to the program, students must meet the general conditions for admission set out in section 2 of the College Education Regulations, such as, for Specialization C: Music Theatre Performance; successfully completing an audition.

Length of training

Option	Specific (hours)	Total (hours)
A Composition and Arrangement	1 350	2 010
B Performance	1 350	2 010
C Music Theatre Performance	1 350	2 010

Total length of training includes general training that is common to all programs for 420 hours, general training for this program for 150 hours as well as complementary general training courses for 90 hours.

Duration of training consists of theory and lab work for courses; personal time that the student invests is excluded.

Program Content

Number or Code	Statement of the Competency
01FA	To use elements of musical language
01FB	To transcribe musical materials
01FE	To perform musical works
01FF	To appreciate characteristics of musical works
01FG	To develop instrumental versatility
01FH	To develop artistic sensibility
01FJ	To adapt to new technologies in music
01FL	To manage a career

Specialization A: Composition and Arrangement

Number or Code	Statement of the Competency
01FC	To master the popular music idiom
01FD	To transcribe a piece of popular music
01FK	To establish professional communications
01FM	To arrange a piece of popular music
01FN	To compose a piece of popular music
01FP	To record popular music
01FQ	To compose a song

Number of hours allotted to specific training: 1 350

Specialization B: Specialization B: Performance

Number or Code	Statement of the Competency
01FC.	To master the popular music idiom
01FD.	To transcribe a piece of popular music
01FK.	To establish professional communications
01FR	To perfect instrumental or vocal technique
01FS	To function as a professional popular music soloist
01FT	To function as a professional performer in a small popular music ensemble
01FU	To function as a popular music studio musician
01FV	To function as a popular music accompanist
01FW	To produce a popular music show
01FX	To improvise in a popular music context
01FY	To make expressive use of stage technics

One of the following competencies to be chosen by the student: 01FX or 01FY.
Number of hours allotted to specific training: 1 350

Specialization C: Music Theatre Performance

Number or Code	Statement of the Competency
01FR.	To perfect instrumental or vocal technique
048Q	To master spoken-voice techniques
048R	To master the fundamental elements of acting
048S	To use dance techniques
048T	To establish professional relationships
048U	To assimilate a music theatre role
048V	To make a studio recording of a music theatre number
048W	To prepare for a performance of a music theatre show
048X	To perform a role in a music theatre show
048Y	To build up a repertoire for music theatre auditions

Number of hours allotted to specific training: 1 350

Admission Conditions and Prerequisites

To be admitted to the program, a person must meet the general requirements for admission set out in the College Education Regulations, as well as the following special conditions, where applicable:

• no requirements

Educational Organizations Offering the Program

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College	D/E
Vanier College	D	More info

Musician

Musicians perform different styles of music such as rock, pop, jazz, blues, folk, World Beat, etc., either solo or in a group. They compose, arrange or improvise musical pieces and songs, accompany singers and make studio recordings. They may be called upon to perform roles in musical theatre productions. This is an exciting career for creative, disciplined and versatile people with musical talent.