Module Code - Title:
MU4083
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SECOND INSTRUMENT STUDIES THREE
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
MU4017
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module allows students on the BA Irish Music / BA Irish Dance / BA World Music / BA Contemporary Dance / BA Voice to further develop performance skills in a instrumental skill (including voice) secondary to their main performance practice at the Irish World Academy. 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 Irish Music / BA Irish Dance / BA World Music / BA Contemporary Dance / BA Voice 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. Students will generate a short public performance which will play a part in the assessment of this module.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
- present stylistically acceptable and developed performance on their instrument.
- interpret repertoire in an artistically focused manner.
- construct meaningful and individual, performance practices.
- consistently replicate excellent technique.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
- embrace alternative performance practices.
- respond creatively and honestly to tutor feedback.
- Follow a regime of structured practice
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
- execute consistently good technical practice
- present a short and technically good and creative public 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:
Beech, Nic (ed.) (2017)
Organising Music: Theory, Practice, Performance
, Cambridge University Press
Dumais, David (2015)
Music Practice: The Musician's Guide to Practicing and Mastering your Instrument like a Professional
, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane (eds) (1998)
The Ends of Performance
, New York University Press
Schatzki, T., Knorr Cetina, K. and Von Savigny, E., eds (2001)
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Research
, Routledge
Snell, Alden H. & Suzanne L. Burton, (2015)
Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Instrumental Music
, Rowman and Littlefield
Other Relevant Texts:
Harris, Paula (2014)
The Practice Process
, Faber
Klickstein, Gerald (2012)
Follow The Musician's Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness
, OUP USA
Mishra, Jennifer (2018)
iPractice: Technology in the 21st Century Music Practice Room (Essential Music Technology:The Prestissimo Series)
, OUP USA
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BAVOICUFA - VOICE
BAWOMUUFA - WORLD MUSIC
BAIRDAUFA - IRISH DANCE
BAIRMUUFA - IRISH MUSIC
BACODAUFA - CONTEMPORARY DANCE
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
roisin.nighalloglaigh@ul.ie