MODULE DETAILS

Description

Please note that in order to take this module you must have studied MUS5106-20 Community Music Practice.

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module equips you with skills to work as a music leader in community settings. You will create and deliver warm-ups and themed workshops developed for a variety of different clients. The module includes a placement in the South West region where you will lead a project, usually together with another student in the group rather than individually, mentored by staff. In addition you will gain understanding of how community music works professionally as part of the wider music industry together with the importance of funding and how and where to source it. You will write a journal on the placement which will cover planning, delivery, outcomes and reflection, and which will form the basis of a presentation given to a professional panel.

The module aims to:

• Equip you with advanced music leader skills in a variety of placement situations

• Provide an opportunity to work in a real community music environment

• Prepare a funding proposal presented to a professional panel

• Enable you to reflect on your continuing development as a musician in a community context (rather than in a university environment)

• Equip you with skills to work empathetically with diverse client groups

2. Outline syllabus:

1. The study of communication, gesture, logistics, pace, warm ups, reflection and theoretical backgrounds.

2. How to use set musical models as a ‘way in’ to the creative process

3. Starting, stopping, layering, dynamics

4. Setting tasks, collecting musical elements and structuring pieces

5. Placement

6. Designing and building a project; budgeting and funding

7. Pitching a project to a professional funding panel

3. Teaching and learning activities:

A weekly workshop developing and rehearsing advanced music leader techniques (F.1 and S.1). Later in the course tutorials are given to support the development of the blueprint (S.2), and the placement will be observed and mentored (S.1). You will keep abreast of the most recent research to inform your individual work and place your practice in an academic context (S.1). You will consult Bath Spa University’s Placement and Work-Based Learning Policy (16 May 2017) completing the placement agreement, information and feedback forms. Placement providers also provide feedback on completion of the project.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Placement and Journal (1000 words)

• % Weighting: 50

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Presentation (2500 words)

• % Weighting: 50