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MU2001   Making Music 2

Academic year(s): 2024-2025

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 20

ECTS credits : 10

Level : SCQF level 8

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: 10.00 am Thu (lecture), 10.00 am Wed (practical class)

This module builds on the practical skills and musicianship developed in MU1004. Students can choose to perform a 30-minute solo performance or submit a portfolio of compositions. The module will support students who wish to tackle more demanding repertoire or compose for more ambitious forces, and help students to understand how their creative voice can be enhanced by scholarship from the field of Performance Studies and their own reflective practice. Written work is very closely aligned to performance or composition, and offers further opportunities to develop and articulate personal views. Students not already in receipt of a scholarship or bursary will receive a 30-minute weekly vocal or instrumental lesson; current scholarship or bursary recipients maintain the full duration of their award. There may also be opportunities for masterclasses with professional musicians as part of the student workload outside formally timetabled classes.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must gain an average mark of at least 14 from MU1004

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 1-hour seminars (11 weeks), 1-hour practicals (11 weeks); 1/2 hour 1:1 tuition weekly from weeks 1-11

Scheduled learning hours: 27

Guided independent study hours: 173

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 60% exam 40% coursework


Re-assessment: 60% exam 40% coursework

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr T A Wilkinson
Module teaching staff: Team taught

Intended learning outcomes

  • To prepare a solo performance (or portfolio of compositions) of advanced repertoire through reflective, self-directed work
  • To have an understanding of how scholarship can inform performance/composition
  • To have an awareness of some of the key ideas in the field of historically informed performance
  • To have insights as to how their development as a musician can synthesize a range of knowledge sources