The latvian academy of culture

TERM 3

Work at monologues, readings of excerpts from the ancient Greek epics (in the hexameter). The melody of speech as an expression of the purposeful development of the plot. Exercises: the compass of the human voice. Melodic digressions: falls – providers of a new, melodic increase in the implementation of the prospects of speech, the significance of a logical and a psychological pause, the application of the logical pause in prose, the application of a logical pause in poetry, censorship, poetry in prose, connections in the expression of legato and staccato, the rhythmical arrangement of concepts in the measures of speech, the concepts of the essence of a thought and their arrangements according to the melodic principle of counting. Exercises. The use of a mask on the stage in the antique drama and the contemporary theatre.	33-49	L2;L2;L2;L2;L2;L2;L2;L2;P2;P2;P2;2P;P2;P2;P2;P2;2P;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2
TERM 4
Gradual memorisation of the text of the performance by a continuous compilation stream of conceptions of various origins created in one’s consciousness. The use of imagination, personal experience and observations in the learning of a text: observations; reconstruction of the concepts of senses; concepts of associative imagination; inner speech; a subtext as a carrier of specification of the internal creative processes; the author’s rights, the limits of the possibilities of interpretation, rules of the application of standard speech.	50-66	L2;L2;L2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2
The performance of a prose excerpt, the transformation of literary works into the performance of stage speech, the purposeful application of the spiritual impulse to further the sonority of one’s voice and pronunciation, the necessity of communicability during the performance. The speech material is desirably to be chosen from the classics of the world’s and Latvian literature.
The essential differences between the dramatic action and the performance of a speech. The necessity of communicability during the speech.
The quotation of a repeated text or the dialogue of persons involved in the plot from the speaker’s viewpoint. Skills of the development of a text. Work at the staging of national and world classical literature: stories, long stories, novels, essays and others.
TERM 5
The specific features of poetry, its analysis and the choice of means of expression. Rules of the flow of speech in the performances of lyrics and lyrical epics. Metrics and metres of poetry: spondee; trochee; iambus; dactyl; amphibrach; anapaest; paean; the system of the metric, tonic and syllabic metre; hexameter and pentameter. Literary examples and exercises in the identification and expression of meters and their changes; the distinct characteristics of the performance of folk songs.	65, 66, 67	L2;P2
The analysis of different performances of poetry: love lyrics, ballads, humoristic poetry, fables, satire and patriotic poetry. The key principles of the creation of the composition of poetry.	68-80	L2;L2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2;P2
A radio speech (practical work - a recording in the studio). Preconditions for the choice of literary material, their acquisition and compliance. The analysis and evaluation of the theme, the main idea, events and facts. The speaker’s viewpoint and his/her interpretation. Inner monologue. Action throughout the whole speech. The perfection of speech technique. The acquisition of the change of tempo and rhythms and possibilities to increase the compass of the speaker’s voice. The implementation of monumental works in the expression of sound: an epic, a heroic poem, a hexameter and others. Rules of the flow of speech in the lyric-epical performances. The application of subjective imagination, experience and observations in the process of the personification of a text. The choice and mastering of the means of expression. The involvement of the students in concerts and speech performances of various genres. The performance of a prose excerpt, monologues. The reading of an informative newspaper text, observing the rules of speech. The speaker as an announcer. The examination of the flow of one’s voice and the word-based performance of a thought by speaking in darkness.