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This practical placement experience allows you to become a beginner all over again by learning a ‘new’ instrument during the term, recreating the feelings experienced by beginners. You will use various repertoire, aural tests, scales, and sight reading assessments and […]
Preparing Young Musicians for Assessment Read More
You will establish connections between the measured progress of a young player or singer and the general musical development of the child and focus on graded development at early stages while paying particular attention to the acquisition of aural training
Grades and Development Read More
You will explore sound approaches to technique and analyse a range of technique strategies as you draw upon your own experience as a learner.
Technique for the Young Performer Read More
This module’s content will depend on the choice of performed material of the individual students, but will focus on three main areas of personal development: the achievement of technical and expressive maturity; the identification of a demonstrably appropriate repertoire or
You will focus on one or more major performance projects which will involve opportunities to work creatively with a variety of ensembles and collaborations, including those which cross arts disciplines. Connections will be made with current projects in other institutions
This module considers modernist style in music, dividing into two sections which focus respectively on the recognised major figures of the era (Messiaen, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School) and lesser known but important contextual figures (such as the Futurists,
This module will develop your confident and probing analytical style with a close exploration of compositional intention, particularly where this is allied to programmatic or narrative elements in the models you study.
You will explore a broad range of musical genres, ideas, styles and constructional devices from the birth of opera in 1600, through the rapid development of concerti grossi, the mass and the oraotorio, to the seminal theoretical and compositional writings
