Module Code - Title:
MU6022
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IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PROJECT
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is created to develop academic and vocational skills appropriate for the professional traditional Irish musician. It will be delivered through a series of critically engaged seminars and presentations from relevant academics, artists and professionals in the field. Students will develop these skills in the contexts of academic or vocational projects supervised by faculty and tutors.
Syllabus:
In this module students will engage in both academic and vocational study. The module will explore a number of vocational aspects of the life of the practising traditional musician, specific to this art form. These will be contextualised by practising artists and professionals in the fields of traditional music promotion and production, heritage and arts organisations in Irish diasporic, folk and other appropriate international contexts. Students will also engage with key academic ideas and contexts giving them perspectives on traditional music performance practice, such as regional styles, orality/literacy, etc. Students will generate a specific project directly related to real world professional manifestations of their own performance practice, which could have an academic or performance focus.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
- Students will be able to identify aspects of their performance practice best suited for professional practice.
- Students will contrast approaches to the understanding of traditional music practice.
- Students will extend their arts practice for successful professional use.
- Students will demonstrate a critical awareness of vocational and academic opportunities developed from, and specific to, their performance practice.
- Students will formulate strategies and objects for their professional practice.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
- Students will relate their traditional performance practice to contemporary, international, professional performance practice.
- Students will be able to display strategies to sustain professional practice.
- Students will synthesise native historical and contemporary international practice.
- Students will be able to relate and synthesise academic and performance practices.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
- Students will construct professional artistic objects and strategies and/or academic projects.
- Students will perform their traditional arts practice in accordance to internationally viable commercial practice and standards.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be taught through the examination of examples of sustainable good practice in the professional traditional arts, as well as through examination of key academic theories around performance practice. The module will be engaged through contact with paradigmatic and creative practitioners and academics. Students will be assessed through the development of creative and sustainable projects and artistic objects. They will articulate their goals through reflective writing, demonstrating a responsibility to tradition and artistic practice. Students will be require to engage their projects collaboratively.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Fleischmann, Aloys (1998)
Sources of Irish Traditional Music c1600-1855
, Garland
Vallely, Fintan, ed. (2011)
The Companion to Irish Traditional Music
, Cork University Press
Rigden, John (1985)
Physics and the Sound of Music
, John Wiley
McCann, Anthony (2012)
Opportunities of Resistance: Irish Traditional Music and the Irish Music Rights Organisation 1995-2000
, Popular Music and Society 35(5):651-681
Other Relevant Texts:
Dodge, Charles (1997)
Computer Music : Synthesis, Composition and Performance
, Cengage Learning
Hillhouse, Andy (2013)
Hooks and New Tunes: Contemporary Irish Dance Music in its Transnational Context
, Ethnomusicology Ireland 2/3
O'Flynn, John (2011)
The Irishness of Irish Music
, Farmgate
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
MAITMPTFA - IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Conor.Caldwell@ul.ie