Module Code - Title:
MD6232
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PERFORMANCE PRACTICE 2
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is designed to facilitate the development of students' individual instrumental or vocal performance practice. In addition the module broadens their experience and deepens their understanding and embodied knowledge of diverse music ensemble practices and repertoires.
Syllabus:
Mentored by faculty and tutors, students engage with other students in studio, laboratory and performance spaces to develop creative, collaborative work within and extending from their own creative music practices. Students choose two performance options from a pool of courses representing a diverse range of traditions and cultures, covering instrumental, vocal and dance tuition, and music and dance ensembles.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Develop knowledge, understanding and performative experience of diverse forms of creative practice. Expand repertoire of individual and ensemble performance pieces. Evaluate creative options appropriate to more than one performing arts practice.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Embrace a multi-disciplinary, multicultural approach to creativity. Cooperate in the realisation of collaborative performances. Participate productively in a community of student performing artists and synthesize diverse practices towards the development of the student's own creative voice.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Develop genre- and ensemble-specific performance skills (including specific motor skills) in more than one artistic practice. Embody familiar and new artistic practices.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module is taught in the context of small group and larger ensemble classes according to best practice in the international context of performance arts education. UL Graduate attributes are core to the ethos of this module, developing creative practices through the development of embodied knowledge. Students learn to cultivate articulate and responsible styles of performance in diverse idioms.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Eliott, D. and Silverman, M. (2015)
Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education
, Oxford University Press
Solis, T. (Ed.) (2004)
Performing Ethnomusicology: Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles
, University of California Press
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
MAITMPTFA - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
matthew.noone@ul.ie