Module Code - Title:
MU4007
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PROFESSIONAL SKILLS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTIST
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module will focus on the development of knowledge and skills necessary for professional engagement with the modern world of performance and related vocational fields.
Syllabus:
This module will examine issues pertinent to the lives of professional musicians and dancers. Issues such as promotion, effective communication, industry structures, touring, dealing with statutory arts bodies and funding structures will be practically engaged. Classes may feature professionals working in these fields and regularly faculty with relevant experience. This aspect of the module is supported by a lecture series and assessed through attendance and written assignments in the form of professional portfolios and resources.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Students will know important performance industry structures, both nationally and internationally. Students will be able to identify aspects of the industry most relevant for their performance practice and career development. Students will be able to engage funding structures and processes.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Students will be able to relate to industry structures that will support their performance practice and career through their lives. Students will have the capacity and motivation to engage a professional community of arts practice.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Students will formally engage aspects of stagecraft and presentation.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be taught through a mixture of lectures, tutorials and performance based laboratories. It will have traditional academic and vocational outcomes, giving the subject area an real-world relevance. As such this module has UL graduate attributes at it's core, focusing on knowledge based outputs supplemented with a embodied experience rooted in collaborative professional practice. Students will be able to articulate their understanding of the contemporary world of professional artistry in a culturally engaged and responsible manner.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Whitsett, Tim (1998)
The dictionary of music business terms
, Artistpro
Passman, Donald S (1998)
All you need to know about the music business
, Penguin
Other Relevant Texts:
MacGorain, Riobard ()
Striking the right note: a submission to government on the development of the Irish music industry
, Irish Business and Employers Confederation. Music Industry Group
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
eleanor.giraud@ul.ie