Module: MUS4105-20 Performing Music 1B (Practices)

Level: 4

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Adam Biggs

Module Tutor Contact Details: a.biggs@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module develops your skills and experience as a performing musician through practical exploration of the performance practices associated with certain repertoires.

This module aims to:

• Examine performance practices that emerged from different historical/cultural situations

• Explore performance practices associated with key styles and genres

• Foster improvisatory practices as a stylistic or self-learning strategy.

2. Outline syllabus:

Sessions in repertoire studies introduces you to key performance practices that emerge from engagement with many kinds of music and music-making. These sessions explore indicative performance features that are associated with historical (and may include examination of the eras of classical music) or stylistic contexts (which may include exploration of genre-specific performance attributes associated with, for example, subsets of jazz, pop, and musical theatre).

You produce two projects, the first designed to allow you to demonstrate your ability to realise these kinds of facets in a performance, the second designed to allow you to practically foreground your methods of interrogation and understanding within this area.

3. Teaching and learning activities:

Classes are composed of a series of group lectures/seminars alongside individual instrumental lessons. Classes introduce strategic approaches to performance whilst instrumental lessons provide you with individual instrument-specific guidance to blend these ideas directly into your personal performance work.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Performance Project

• % Weighting: 50%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Performance Practice

• % Weighting: 50%