Module Code - Title:
MU4018
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SECOND INSTRUMENT STUDIES TWO
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module allows students on the BA Performing Arts to further develop performance skills in a second instrument. Students will have the opportunity to critically engage embodied expressions of performance practice on an instrument and or practice other than that in their core Practicum A module. Students will engage these studies in a environment informed by recent principles in arts practice research. This module will give students invaluable new perspectives on their creative and artistic potential. This is an elective module to be offered throughout the BA in Performing Arts programme and is subject to the Irish World Academy being able to source appropriate expertise and resources.
Syllabus:
Students in this module will continue to develop a second instrumental performance area in small group and one-on-one contexts. Students will develop and document an appropriate practice regime as well as use reflective tools such as auto-ethnographic journals.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Students in the module will be able to:
- present stylistically acceptable and developed pefromance on their instrument.
- interpret repertoire in an artistically focused manner.
- construct meaningful and to a large extent individual, performance practices.
- consistently replicate excellent technique.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Students in the module will be able to:
- embrace alternative performance practices.
- respond creatively and honestly to tutor feedback.
- Follow a regime of structured practice
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Students in the module will be able to:
- execute consistently good technical practice
- present a short and technically good and creative performance on the chosen instrument
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be informed by recent development of Arts Practice research and will utilise latest techniques in auto-ethnography and narrative enquiry. This module will embody many of the core aspects of the graduate attributes. Students will learn to be technically and artistically articulate in another embodied, instrumental practice and as such, students will become knowledgable and creative in a new arts context.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
eggy Phelan and Jill Lane (eds) (1998)
The Ends of Performance
, ew York University Press
Richard Schechner (2005)
Performance Studies: An Introduction
, Routledge
Suzanne L. Burton, Alden H. Snell (2015)
Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Instrumental Music
, Rowman and Littlefield
Schatzki, T., Knorr Cetina, K. and Von Savigny, E. (2001)
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Research
, Routledge
Other Relevant Texts:
Laura Sindberg (2012)
ust Good Teaching: Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance in Theory and Practice: Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance in Theory and Practice
, Rowman
Jennifer Borkowski (2016)
Modernizing Practice Paradigms for New Music (The Art and Science of Music Teaching and Performance)
, Peter Lang
Paula Harris (2014)
The Practice Process (Faber Edition: Improve Your Teaching!)
, Faber
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Spring
Module Leader:
roisin.nighalloglaigh@ul.ie