Module Code - Title:
MD4087
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ADVANCED ENSEMBLE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This is a module for fourth year BA Irish Music and Dance Students who wish to develop their ensemble skills further and who show a propensity to do so in their assessment for module MD4016.
Syllabus:
Students in this module will concentrate on developing their knowledge of ensemble skills taken from a number of musical contexts. These skills will be developed in the context of their own performance practices.
Students will attend a number of lectures that engage a systematic examination of the musical processes involved in the creation of ensemble. Such processes will then be utilised in performance laboratory classes, which will result in a public performance, developed in the context of a reflective journal.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Students will recognise a number of varied processes of ensemble practice. From this, the students will be able to distil methodologies for their own ensemble practice. This will be developed and manipulated to suit their own performance practice, resulting in the design of new ensemble practices. Students will build ear training and improvisation skills.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Students will co-operate in the production of these ensembles. As such this will involve the integration of a number of performance practices and approaches in each instance.
Students will synthesis different arrangement and compositional practices in the production of their own original work.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Students will perform their arrangements and compositions in a public context.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
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Audio-visual resources, as chosen by lecturer, to suit the particular cohort of students.
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Fintan Vallely, ed. (2011)
Companion to Irish traditional music
, Cork: Cork University Press
Fairbairn, Hazel (1993)
Group playing in traditional Irish music : interaction and heterophony in the session
, Unpub. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Cambridge
Other Relevant Texts:
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Audio-visual resources, as chosen by lecturer, to suit the particular cohort of students.
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Hamilton, Samuel Colin (1996)
The role of commercial recordings in the development and survival of Irish traditional music 1899-1993
, Unpub.Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Limerick
Tagliarino, Barrett (2006)
Music Theory: A Practical Guide for All Musicians
, Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Co.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
hannah.fahey@ul.ie