This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
The module will focus upon the development of solo performance skills and an understanding of approaches to effective regular practice at an advanced level. Skills and understanding are fostered through individual instrumental lessons, lectures and performance platforms. Students will develop their musicianship by listening to others and by performing themselves, performing works that are more challenging, both technically and expressively, than those performed during the study of MU519 Performance 2. Lectures will provide guidance on performance conventions, approaches to repertoire and more advanced performance considerations, e.g. subtle and complex distinctions in tone colour and phrase relationships, and approaches to tackling repertoire where the possibility of performance is deliberately problematized.
Delivery of this module is by individual specialist tuition (addresses 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2), lectures (11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1 and 12.2) and participation in performance platforms/presentations (11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1 and 12.2). Individual instrumental/vocal lessons with a specialist tutor aid students in their development. The total workload is 300 hours including approximately 90 minutes of staff contact time per week over two terms. Students are expected to devote the vast majority of study time to developing and implementing a rigorous individual practice regime (around 12 hours a week). Students are also expected to commit to extra-curricular musical activity outside of formal classes to supplement their work in this module. In addition to this, students will be encouraged to deepen their understanding of performance and individual practice by engaging relevant parts of the sources given in the reading list.
Individual performance: 70% (11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1 12.2)
Practice and rehearsal diary: 1500 words: 20% (11.4, 12.2)
Performance platform contribution: 10% (11.1, 11.2, 12.1)
StGeorge, J. M. (2012) ‘Learning Patterns in Music Practice: Links Between Disposition, Practice Strategies and Outcomes. Music Education Research 14 (2).
Parncutt R. & McPherson, G. (2002) The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Williamson, A. (2004) Strategies and Techniques for Enhancing Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
See the library reading list for this module (Medway)
11. The intended subject specific learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, students will:
1. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the repertoire of their principal instrument of study through a critical and imaginative engagement with performance conventions and through the ability to shape even technically demanding passages accurately and with a sense of flair.
2. Develop an advanced level of performance skill on their principal instrument of study through a critical and imaginative approach to phrasing, dynamics and articulation.
3. Communicate music using an advanced level of musicianship, technique and stylistic language, thereby showing a critical awareness of overall shape, phrase structure and nuance of articulation.
4. Develop further a rigorous practice regime at an advanced level (as outlined above), involving a balance between technical studies, learning and memorizing of work, focused playing of repertoire and sight-reading.
12. The intended generic learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, students will:
1. Respond to criticism and suggestions in a positive manner, trying out and assessing alternative methods and techniques
2. Develop the ability to work on a project over an extended period of time.
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