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This course is designed to enable students to develop their musical identity as performers through advanced and extensive study and preparation.

Individual lessons, normally 18 hours total over 20 weeks, at times arranged between student and teacher

3 individual progress meetings with staff, at the beginning of each semester and at the end of semester 2

■ in semester 1
EITHER
9 unsupervised rehearsals on Tuesdays and 10 supervised rehearsals on Thursdays as scheduled over 10 weeks in MyCampus 
OR
2 classes, 2 individual meetings, and Formative Assessment (10 minutes stage time) as scheduled in My Campus

■ in semester 2, 9 taught sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays as scheduled over 10 weeks in MyCampus

Grade C3 or above in MUSIC4090, and admission into fourth year BMus, MA Music, or BEng/MEng Electronics with Music.

OR

Grade B3 or above in MUSIC2009 or MUSIC4029, and admission into fourth year BMus, MA Music, or BEng/MEng Electronics with Music

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ SEMESTER 1

■ Group Performance Exercise, and Portfolio (audience programme, rehearsal diary, press plan): c.15 minutes (20% individual mark, 10% group mark) - 30%

■ SEMESTER 2

■ Concert Programme and Commentary (1500 words) - 15%

■ Solo or Ensemble Concert c.25 minutes - 55%

 OR

■ SEMESTER 1

■ (formative assessment only)

■ SEMESTER 2

■ Concert Programme and Commentary (1500 words) - 20%

■ Solo or Ensemble Concert: c.40 minutes - 80%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ Contribution to the management and/or preparation of the performance as an alternative to the group performance exercise.

■ There is no alternative to the solo or ensemble concerts, but use of an adapted or alternative performing space and a reduced audience can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

This course aims to:

■ provide a framework for students to design and give a substantial musical performance for a live audience in real time (or a shorter performance and a group performance exercise), managing any collaborative elements, and embodying an assured mode of presentation

■ enable students to further develop their practice discipline and advance their technique with the aid of an individual teacher in more than one specialism

■ encourage students to critique the learning processes, contextualising their own experiences as developing performers

■ enable students to integrate effective roles and strategy within a collaborative performing group

■ allow students to refine their participation in the organisational and entrepreneurial aspects of music making

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

■ programme a range of repertoire of advanced level standard, suited to the student's instrument/s or voice, with an appropriate level of technical challenge, and drawing on reliable sources where appropriate

■ realise the chosen works effectively and with technical command, in stylistically appropriate ways.

■ evaluate performances by listening and responding critically to their own and those of their peers.

■ select suitable musical colleagues in order to plan and rehearse a collaborative musical ensemble (optional).

■ identify and deploy key aspects of stagecraft in performing.

■ identify and deploy administration, management and (optionally) entrepreneurial skills appropriate for the repertoire and performance context.