Collaborative Music Project

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Ability to be self-critical and reflective, both musically and technically.
• Ability to work independently and within a group, working towards agreed aims.
• Set well informed goals for future personal and perhaps career development, building on strengths and addressing weaknesses that collaborative project work has helped you recognise.
• Time management.
• Ability to be honest and find ways of working with your group in a productive way.
• Demonstrate leadership skills.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Technical problems and solutions on chosen instrument(s) and technology as they relate to the project.
• Communicating with audiences on stage and/or through digital means.
• Individual/Ensemble practice techniques and/or use of software
• Repertoire for ensemble/musical group and appropriateness for chosen means of dissemination.
• Approaches to achieving positive team working and successful interpersonal communication.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Greater awareness of how you fit into a musical project (e.g. producer, musician, composer/arranger, film editor).
• Greater musical control of your instrument (including dynamic range, colour range, shape and structure, and phrasing) and/or (music) technology.
• Develop skills in conceiving and presenting musical performances.
• Strategies for working as a member of a musical group.
• Technical control of your instrument (facility, pitch range, flexibility, tone control, muscular coordination) and/or (music) technology.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Learn about contemporary modes of performance dissemination, including in the digital realm.
• Develop a working method for collaborating with other musicians.
• Self-evaluate in practice and rehearsal, in order to continue to improve.
• Structure group meetings, rehearsals, recording and individual practise sessions effectively.
• Ability to apply practice techniques to new repertoire.

In this module you will work with a group to create, rehearse, produce and document a ‘performance’. You will be supported throughout by the module lead and/or a mentor/coach who will provide both musical and logistical guidance and direction.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching will comprise a mix of delivery methods, such as lectures, workshops and group tutorials. We are aiming to deliver a significant amount of your teaching face to face, blended with online learning, unless circumstances dictate otherwise. In which case the delivery could comprise an increased element of online learning, or move to entirely online if face to face teaching is not possible or advisable.

• Lectures (3 in total)

1.Conceiving and developing your project

2.Approaches to contemporary performance

3.Devising a learning diary and self-reflective report

• Group tutorials (10 across the year) with the module coordinator and/or group mentor/ensemble coach
• Ongoing tutorial support as required
• Technical support in developing documentation
• Plenary sessions (1 per semester), facilitated by the module coordinator, allowing students to compare notes and learn from each other

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.