Module: MUS4104-20 Performing Music 1B (Practices)

Level: 4

Credit Value: 20

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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:

The conceptual resources explored in the module include topics such as melody, harmony, time and rhythm, and other musical materials. You consider relevant frameworks - methods by which these topics can be approached and explored - throughout the course, developing ways in which issues surround these topics can be folded into your own work. Sessions introduce these compositional topics as resources and are designed to expand your imaginative scope as a creative musician.

You create a techniques portfolio that demonstrates your abilities to use the resources encountered in the module and then, alongside this, produce a creative project that allows you to personalise these ideas.

3. Teaching and learning activities:

Classes combine lectures designed to develop your contextual and theoretical knowledge, and practical workshops that help you to apply these new concepts.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Techniques Portfolio

• % Weighting: 50%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Project

• % Weighting: 50%