Klapa Singing

Due to an exceptionally high level of interest, we offer Klapa Singing as an additional elective course to the existing Music Pedagogy, Music Culture Studies and Academic Studies (Music Theory) programmes.

A group of subjects addressing the tradition and craft of klapa singing is available solely to the students of Music Pedagogy, Cultural Studies and Academic Studies (Music Theory) programmes.

This initiative is supported by the renowned klapa charity ‘Ljubo Stipišić Delmata’ and The Festival of Dalmatian Klapas in Omiš.

The Klapa Singing programme comprises 16 subjects and is delivered throughout the entire duration of undergraduate study within Music Pedagogy and Academic Studies (Music Theory), whereas the postgraduate students of Academic Studies (Music Theory) and Music Cultural Studies receive this tuition in the first and second semester of their programme. Due to an overlap of subjects between the Klapa singing programme and the mainstream studies, the students of Music Pedagogy and Music Cultural Studies will only require 6 elective subjects to complete the programme. Students of Academic Studies (Music Theory) will require 14 subjects which will be timetabled alongside their regular subjects (2 modules are a compulsory undergraduate subjects).

Klapa Singing as an additional programme started in 2020/2021 with first group of students taking elective subjects in their 5th and 6th semester of studies.

Modules (and lecturers):

Church Music 1 (Blaženko Juračić)

Church Music 2 (Blaženko Juračić)

Foundations of Vocal Techniques 1 (Mate Akrap)

Foundations of Vocal Techniques 2 (Mate Akrap)

Vocal Folk Stylistics 1 (Terezija Kusanović)

Vocal Folk Stylistics 2 (Terezija Kusanović)

Ethnomusicology 1 (Vedrana Milin Ćurin / Maja Milošević Carić) 

Ethnomusicology 2 (Vedrana Milin Ćurin / Maja Milošević Carić) 

Ethnomusicological Research (Vedrana Milin Ćurin / Mirko Jankov)

Ensemble Arrangements 1 (Vlado Sunko) 

Ensemble Arrangements 2 (Vlado Sunko) 

Dalmatian Traditional Music 1 (Vedrana Milin Ćurin / Mirko Jankov)

Dalmatian Traditional Music 2 (Vedrana Milin Ćurin / Mirko Jankov)

Working with Klapa 1 (Blaženko Juračić)

Working with Klapa 2 (Blaženko Juračić)

Harmonising and Arranging Klapa Songs (Vlado Sunko)

• Students of Music Pedagogy enrol for 6 elective subjects: Working with Klapa 1 and 2, Vocal Folk Stylistics 1 and 2, Harmonising and Arranging Klapa Songs, and Ethnomusicological Research. The other subjects are part of their regular Undergraduate Music Pedagogy and Graduate Music Cultural Studies programmes. 
• The students of Academic Studies (Music Theory) enrol for 14 elective subjects and must pass Foundations of Vocal Techniques 1 and 2 modules, a compulsory part of their regular studies. The students must enrol for and pass Arranging for Ensemble modules 1 and 2 prior to the Harmonising and Arranging Klapa Songs module. 
• To enrol for the Ethnomusicological Research module, it is compulsory to be enrolled on Ethnomusicology modules 1 and 2, and the same sequence applies to the exams.

Here, below, is a list of modules with the timeline, for the undergraduate and graduate students of Music Pedagogy/Cultural Studies and Academic Studies (Music Theory) Departments:

Students can list the subjects above in their records, but only if they attend all 16 modules, will these studies be acknowledged by way of a supplementary Klapa Singing diploma.