Module Code - Title:
MD5522
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FINAL PRESENTATION
Year Last Offered:
2026/7
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To demonstrate the ability to (a) perform specialist repertoire at the standard of a public recital OR (b) conduct a research project to the level of a Masters standard dissertation OR (c) a combination of (a) and (b). A research project may include a number of elements designed by the Course director of the appropriate programme and specific to that programme. It may include one or more of the following:1. portfolio of original compositions, presented in appropriate format(s), such as music scores, audio and video recordings. 2. Academic Presentation 3. thesis submission or written documentation.
D1 and D2 grades for are not permitted for this module in line with University regulations for final thesis modules.
Syllabus:
This final presentation involves a final performance / thesis / presentation / compositions submissions or a combination of some of these, offered by the student as the culmination of his / her work during the course of the programme. The structure and elements of the final Presentation are designed in consultation with the course director and relevant tutors.
The parameters and content of the assessed outputs for this module are dictated by the disciplinary and genre norms of the programme that the module is part of. Main outputs (either thesis / compositions / performance) can be surrounded by other written and presentational outputs that will articulate the appropriate level nine nature of the assessment in the particular curricular context. All outputs will demonstrate a creative engagement with contemporary exemplars of knowledge and practice in the display of professionally appropriate outputs (thesis/compositions/performance).
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Synthesise learning from core, specialist practical and theoretical modules on music and dance towards the production of a final theoretical /composition / performance presentation of work.
Generate new work (performance and / or composition and / or dissertation based) grounded in the traditions and contexts of specific performance / theoretical fields / compositional genre.
Critique and evaluate work within the context of specified performance and / or compositional and / or theoretical practices.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Value the different practices / traditions /styles of specific performance practices equally.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Synthesise performative knowledge towards the generation of new work or the proposal of an individualised interpretation.
Perform / choreograph / compose / write as a culmination of a programme of study in a specialised performance practice
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Labs, tutorials + independent study. The learning experience will involve the creation of an independent creative project which may be presented as a performance, choreography, composition and / or written representation.
Prime Texts:
Hiley, D. (1993)
Western Plainchant: A Handbook
, Clarendon Press
Graham, Colin and Richard Kirkland (1999)
Ireland and Cultural Theory
, Palgrave Macmillan
Fischer-Lichte ,Erika (2008)
The Transformative Power of Performance, A New Aesthetic
, Routledge
Elliott, D.J. & Silverman, M. (2014)
Music matters : a philosophy of music education
, Oxford University Press
Duffy, Michelle and Mair, Judith (2018)
Festival Encounters Theoretical Perspectives on Festival Events
, Routledge
Denzin, Norman K. and Lincoln, Yvonna S. (2008)
The Landscape of Qualitative research
, SAGE
Crispen, D. and Gilmore, B.(Eds.) (2014)
Artistic Experimentation in Music: An Anthology
, Leuven University Press
Cameron, Julia (2016)
The Artist's Way
, Macmillan
Butterworth, J. and Wildshut, L. (Eds) (2018)
Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader (2nd Edition)
, Routledge
Bartleet, B., Higgins, L (2011)
The Oxford Handbook of Community Music
, Oxford University Press
McCollum, J., & Hebert, D. (2014)
Theory and method in historical ethnomusicology
, Lexington Books
Vallely, Fintan (2011)
The Companion to Irish Traditional Music
, Cork University Press
White, Harry (2008)
Music and the Irish Literary Imagination
, Oxford University Press
Wetherell, Margaret, Taylor, Stephanie and Yates, Simeon (2001)
Discourse as Data, A Guide for Analysis
, Open University Press
Stefano, M.L. and Davis, P. (2016)
Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage
, Taylor & Francis
Smith, H. and Dean, R.T. (Eds). (2009)
Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts
, Edinburgh University Press
Schechner, Richard (2013)
Performance Studies: An Introduction
, Routledge
Rutherford-John, T. (2017)
Music After the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture Since 1989
, University of California Press
Royce, Anya Peterson (2015)
The Anthropology of Dance
, Dance Books
Pettan, S., & Titon, J. (2015)
The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology
, Oxford University Press
Ni Uallacháin, Padraigín (2003)
A Hidden Ulster: People, Songs and Traditions of Oriel
, Four Courts Press
Nelson, Robin (2013)
Practice as Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies and Resistance
, Palgrave MacMillan
Other Relevant Texts:
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Supplementary text, audio and visual sources will be provided on a programmatic basis by course directors, lecturers and tutors.
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Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
MASTER OF ARTS IN CLASSICAL STRING PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF ARTS IN COMMUNITY MUSIC
MASTER OF ARTS IN COMPOSITION AND CREATIVE MUSIC PRACTICE
MASTER OF ARTS IN DANCE PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF ARTS IN DANCE STUDIES
MASTER OF ARTS IN DANCE STUDIES - BY DISTANCE
MASTER OF ARTS IN ETHNOCHOREOLOGY
MASTER OF ARTS IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
MASTER OF ARTS IN FESTIVE ARTS
MASTER OF ARTS IN IRISH DANCE STUDIES
MASTER OF ARTS IN IRISH MUSIC STUDIES
MASTER OF ARTS IN IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE
MASTER OF ARTS IN RITUAL CHANT AND SONG
MASTER OF ARTS IN SONGWRITING
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Summer
Module Leader:
Helen.Phelan@ul.ie