Module MUSI53830: Issues in Performance Practice

Department: Music

MUSI53830: Issues in Performance Practice

Prerequisites

• Recital (module), for MA pathway in Performance

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To increase awareness of the relevance between theory and practice, and to develop individual approaches towards more creative performance.

Content

• Historical performance practice : To investigate historically-informed performance practices with particular reference to music of 17th and 18th centuries (3 lectures).
• Editing: Study of source material in music, to introduce editing skills (2 lectures)
• Cultural theories: To introduce theories relevant to all performing and other arts in different periods (2 lectures).
• Music analysis: Overview of different applications of music analysis: to increase understanding of a musical work, with an emphasis on the understanding and use of a range of analytical techniques in the context of creative interpretation (3 lectures).

Learning Outcomes

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Discussion of chosen topics, through seminars and tutorials.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Weekly exercises

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University