Professional Music and Song Techniques (Performance)

Code	551.A0
Diploma	DCS
Sector	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 (Interprétation)

Program Objectives

The professional music and song techniques program aims to train musicians and vocalists capable of developing in various 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.

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. Occasionally they fulfill a particular function, such as providing music for a special event or participating in a television program, with or without a fixed repertoire. On other occasions, they have to produce their own show and take care of the programming. Conducting an ensemble could also be part of working in popular music as well as producing audio material. BR>

Length of training

Option	Specific (hours)	Total (hours)
Specialization B - Performance	1350	2010

Specific (hours)	Total (hours)
1350	2010

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 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 contact hours allotted: 1350

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

Professional Music and Song Techniques (Performance)

Popular music singers, also known as performers, sing on stage or in the recording studio as soloists, ensemble members, or accompanists. They perform rock, pop, jazz, blues, folk, worldbeat and more. They may play characters in a musical theatre show or compose or arrange music and songs. It is an exciting profession for creative people with musical talent and a high tolerance for precariousness. This job is suited to people who are disciplined, versatile, and rigorous.