Module Catalogue 2025/26

Pre Requisite Comment

Admission without either pre-requisite module may be possible, but is subject to satisfactory audition and/ or module leader's approval.

Co Requisite Comment

N/A

Aims

1) to develop further your performance skills and technical proficiency on one or more instruments
and/or voice.
2) to extend and broaden your repertoire encompassing a range of music from a variety of performance
traditions, historical epochs, national origins and genres, as appropriate.
3) to enhance your awareness of the relationships between performance and other aspects of musical
study.

In this module you take regular lessons on your instrument(s)/voice with an assigned tutor, in which you further develop appropriate technical and interpretative skills in MUS1058 and apply them to a broad range of musical styles and genres. One-to-one lessons are supplemented with masterclass and workshops opportunities with Heads of Studies and / or visiting artists.

Outline Of Syllabus

Syllabus guidelines for individual study are set out in the Performance Studies Handbook and vary according to instrument or voice.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

By the end of this module student will have:
- developed your technical and interpretative abilities as a practising musician to an appropriate level
- increased your repertoire and your knowledge of musical styles and genres
- developed critical reflection and evaluation of the learning and performing process
- had experience of a variety of performing situations as soloist and in ensemble

Intended Skill Outcomes

By the end of the module, you should be able to:
- exercise appropriate musical, expressive, technical and presentational skills relevant to the repertoire you perform
- differentiate and apply performance practices appropriate to a wide stylistic range of music
- cultivate and deploy advanced practising techniques
- reflect critically on your strategies for development as a performer
- prepare and present engaging and convincing musical performances

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Individual lessons are the forum for development of appropriate technical and interpretative skills. Group classes (masterclasses, ensemble rehearsals and performances, performance workshop etc.) provide opportunities for further developing a range of performing, rehearsing and ensemble skills. Lectures introduce a range of issues related to stage presentation and professional practice. Lunchtime and student concert attendance gives the performance student regular opportunities to experience and reflect on professional and peer level performances.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The Interim presentation will require you to demonstrate the musical and technical skills you have developed during the first semester, and provides an opportunity to receive feedback on work-in-progress at the mid-point of the year. The final solo recital (normally open to the public) allows you to demonstrate musical, expressive, and technical skills developed through your individual and group lessons and in private practice; there is an additional focus on presentation and communication at Stage 2, as the end-of-year recital may be a public event.

The written programme notes accompanying your final recital will aid the audience in following your recital and in understanding your choice of repertoire, and will track its development over the year under an appropriately formulated plan of study; these notes may document your working processes in tuition, practice and research, and include examples of how your regular participation in student performances and workshops and your active attendance at professional concerts may have impacted on these working processes.

Your one-to-one tutor will also write a progress report, which will be available to the assessment panel for consultation at the time of your end-of-year recital.

In accordance with practice at UK conservatories, the Dean has approved the use of fixed penalties in marking for recital length underruns and overruns, as follows:
1.Recitals that over-run by more than 10% will lose 3 points off their final mark and will be stopped in order to try and keep to the published schedule.
2.Recitals that under-run by more than 10% but less than 20% will lose 3 points off their mark.
3.Recitals that under-run by 20% or more will lose 10 points off their mark.

General Notes

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