Third Year Performance Tuition (for Music Minor and non-Music students)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Structure practice effectively, both with respect to individual sessions and larger timescales.
• Exercise excellent musical control of your instrument(s) (including dynamic range, colour range, shape and structure, and phrasing).
• Apply practice techniques to new repertoire and develop new ones as necessary.
• Exercise excellent technical control of your instrument(s) (facility, pitch range, flexibility, tone control, muscular coordination).

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Listen more intently and critically.
• Organise your time efficiently.
• Be self critical musically and technically.
• Work and perform independently.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Ensemble practice technique (with/as accompanists).
• A wide variety of individual practice techniques.
• Repertoire for chosen instruments.
• Technical problems and solutions on chosen instruments.
• Stage presentation and audience communication.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Argue for or against various musical or stylistic approaches to your performance examination programme.
• Self-evaluate in practice and rehearsal to continue to improve.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Lesson

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.