Recital 1 - MUS00116M

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  • Department: Music
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module summary

This module supports your development in advanced vocal or instrumental technique and develops your interpretative ability, culminating in the presentation of a solo or ensemble recital.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 1 2024-25
B Semester 2 2024-25

Module aims

The module aims to equip you with the ability to prepare and present a solo or ensemble performance.

By bringing independent work week by week to your tutors, you are encouraged to develop an advanced level of technique, explore the qualities of a critical, reflective and informed artistic practice, and develop healthy approaches to preparation and performance. The specialism-specific performance class is used to facilitate peer feedback and reflection, develop your skills in presentation and communication with a live audience, and encourage creative experimentation with interpretative options.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module you should:

  1. Be able to prepare a solo or ensemble recital with the support of your teacher

  2. Demonstrate a secure level of instrumental or vocal technique and musicianship sufficient to convey their chosen repertoire and their own interpretative ideas

  3. Be able to identify, understand and contextualize the key ideas, issues and creative possibilities relating to their chosen musical material (and its text, where appropriate)

  4. Make and convey coherent and convincing interpretative and artistic choices in their chosen repertoire

  5. Be able to perform a programme of solo and/or ensemble music showing an understanding of presentation and audience communication

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark Group
Practical 100 A
Essay/coursework 20 B
Practical 80 B

Special assessment rules

None

Additional assessment information

EITHER

25-30’ recital of solo and/or ensemble music (100%)

OR

15-20’ recital of solo and/or ensemble music (80%)
+
1500 word piece of writing related to the programme in a format suitable for a public readership (for example: an extended programme note essay, or a journalistic article for a specialist publication) (20%)

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark Group
Practical 100 A
Essay/coursework 20 B
Practical 80 B

Module feedback

You will receive written feedback in line with standard University turnaround times.

Indicative reading

TBC