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Programme and Module Handbook

Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2019-2020 (archived)

Module FOUD0017: Foundation Music

Department: Foundation Year (Durham)

FOUD0017: Foundation Music

Type Open Level 0 Credits 10 Availability Available in 2019/20 Module Cap Location Durham

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • None

Aims

  • To enable students to extend the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to communicate through music.
  • To help students to recognise the interdependence of musical skills, knowledge and understanding, and the links between performing, composing and appraising.
  • To provide a framework within which analytical skills may be developed.

Content

  • Performance: Students will prepare a performance in the genre of their choice.
  • Composition: Students will develop composition skills leading to the creation of a three minute piece in response to a chosen brief.
  • Musical Understanding and analysis: Students will learn to compare and contrast excerpts, contextualise music and identify harmonic and tonal features.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • By the end of the module students will:
  • Have acquired the ability to relate a range of methodologies to important issues in musical structure, performance and context.
  • Gain a basic knowledge of harmony and counterpoint and how they function within a range of musical styles.
Subject-specific Skills:
  • Skills to use the acquired knowledge appropriately when listening to or performing music.
  • Enhanced performance skills.
  • Students will develop skills of musical grammar and syntax, putting these skills to practical use through composition exercises.
Key Skills:
  • Communicate effectively in writing.
  • Critical evaluation of performance and compositional techniques.

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

  • Teaching will be by seminars and tutorials. These instil and reinforce the awareness of relevant issues and methodologies
  • Much of the learning, understanding and consolidation will take place through the use of structured workshop activities, groupwork and discussion. Practical exercises give “hands-on” experience of musicological expertise.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
Preparation and Reading 70
Seminars 10 weekly 2 hours 20
Tutorials 10 weekly 1 hour 10
Total 100

Summative Assessment

Component: Performance Component Weighting: 35%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
Performance 5-6 minutes 100% Resubmission
Component: Composition Component Weighting: 35%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
Composition 3 minutes 100% Resubmission
Component: End of Module Test Component Weighting: 30%
Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
End of Module Test 2 hours 100% Resit

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