MusB Music

Year of entry: 2024

Course unit details:
Solo Performance II

Course unit fact file
Unit code MUSC20600
Credit rating 20
Unit level Level 2
Teaching period(s) Full year
Offered by Music
Available as a free choice unit? No

Overview

Each student will learn a variety of works on their first instrument, up to performance standard, with regular instruction from a specialist teacher and an individually tailored programme of study. Each student will attend rehearsals with an approved university ensemble or choir, thereby gaining insights into how works are prepared for public performance of a high standard.

 

Pre/co-requisites

Unit title Unit code Requirement type Description
Solo Performance 1 MUSC10600 Pre-Requisite Compulsory

Aims

  • To extend technical and interpretative skills in musical performance developed in MUSC 10600 Solo Performance I, within an increasingly self-directed environment, such that the student is equipped to proceed to MUSC 30600 Recital if appropriate and will have a secure foundation for further development.

 

Knowledge and understanding

By the end of this course students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate increased understanding of how music works and the contexts in which it is performed
  • Display knowledge of a range of repertoire appropriate to their instrument or voice-type

 

Intellectual skills

By the end of this course students will be able to:

  • Show a developing ability to analyse and interpret musical materials, together with a critical awareness of the contexts of and problems associated with these processes
  • Identify stylistic conventions in music across a range of genres, periods and geographies

 

Practical skills

By the end of this course students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate increasingly advanced technical skills on one instrument or voice
  • Demonstrate growing maturity in interpretative and expressive skills, including sensitive artistry and musicianship, strong projection and imagination in musical performance
  • Communicate confidently and effectively with an audience through musical performance
  • Work constructively and co-operatively with other musicians in producing high standards of musical performance

 

Transferable skills and personal qualities

By the end of this course students will be able to:

  • Produce high-quality performances with a disciplined approach to time management, self-motivation and critical self-awareness
  • Demonstrate the confidence and interpersonal skills to work effectively in small groups, showing skills relating to teamwork, negotiation, decision-making and leadership

 

Employability skills

Analytical skills
Surveying repertoire, analysing and showing understanding of the repertoire you are performing
Innovation/creativity
Initiative (inventing a creative concept and putting into motion, coming up with your own ideas, and not relying on your teacher to do the thinking for you)
Leadership
Being responsible for overseeing a creative product from inception through to final performance
Other
Self-awareness (knowing your strengths and skills and having the confidence to put these across through performance) Willingness to learn (being inquisitive about such issues as repertoire and performance practice, enthusiastic and open to new ideas, making decisions, assessing progress and making changes if necessary) Time management (developing effective and efficient practicing habits, setting and achieving goals, effective collaboration with other musicians as appropriate)

Assessment methods

Recital 100%

 

Feedback methods

  • Verbal feedback will be provided throughout the academic year by vocal/instrumental tutors; written feedback for the end-of-year recital will be provided at the end of Semester 2

Recommended reading

  • Cook, Nicholas, ‘Music as Performance’, in The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, ed. Martin Clayton, Trevor Herbert and Richard Middleton (New York and London: Routledge, 2012), 204–14
  • Davies, Stephen, Musical Works and Performances: a Philosophical Exploration (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • Dunsby, Jonathan, Performing Music: Shared Concerns (Oxford: Clarendon, 1995)
  • Godlovitch, Stanley, Musical Performance: A Philosophical Study (London: Routledge, 1998)
  • Rink, John (ed.), Musical Performance: A Guide to Understanding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
  • Rink, John (ed.), The Practice of Performance: Studies in Musical Interpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

 

Study hours

Scheduled activity hours
Practical classes & workshops 2
Project supervision 18
Independent study hours
Independent study 180

Teaching staff

Staff member Role
Alexander Gagatsis Unit coordinator

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