Course Modules

This module sees you select an area of study in performance and develop it over an extended period. For performers, this is an opportunity to present a longer and more challenging programme of work.

This module provides you with an opportunity to select an area of study of your choice, to research it and present your findings in written form, and to develop this over an extended period.

This module gives you an insight to the role of a ‘swing’ within a musical theatre performance context. This is where you will be asked to learn all the parts of a particular production to be ready to fill any

In this module, you will conduct self-analysis in your knowledge of and skills in accompaniment, clowning, magic and comedy, as you discuss with confidence aspects of practice relevant to their individual choice of or combination of discipline development.

The module introduces you to key skills in examining repertoire drawn from succeeding periods of musical theatre history, supporting an examination of musical structure with a parallel focus on developments in dance and drama within the genre.

This module develops your basic performance and communication skills and your sense of performance context. You will develop your repertoire, your understanding of style and your skill in preparing for audition or performance.

Lectures, analytical listening and set reading materials will take you on a chronological survey of the Western Art-Music tradition from its beginnings in ancient Greece, through the birth of polyphony, early opera, the works of Mozart and Beethoven, to the

This module allows you to strengthen your craft of creating a journey through song through both analysis and performance. You will assess the repertoire studied over the previous year and begin to explore more varied and challenging work under the

This module continues to develop your performance and communication skills and your sense of performance context. You will develop your repertoire, your understanding of style and your skill in preparing for audition or performance.

This module will explore a range of different strategies designed to offer support to the emerging arts practitioner and will introduce you to a number of different models of successful self-development.