Undergraduate Course: Performance 2 (MUSI08074)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | In this course, which follows on from Performance 1, students will continue to develop their practical music performance skills hand in hand with the abilities to approach, evaluate and discuss performance critically. Students will explore a range of repertoires and styles and performance practices from previous centuries to the present in theory and practice. Through activities such as listening to recordings, reconstructing historical performance practices, creating arrangements and dealing critically with music scores and other sources, students will develop their musical expertise and gain confidence in delivering a considered interpretation in performance. |
| Course description |
Following on from Performance 1, this course provides the students with further skills, knowledge and practical opportunities to enable them to develop research-led, critically informed performances. The course is taught in a series of seminars, which explore a range of repertoires and styles and examine the contexts of music performance and performance practices from different periods in music history. Students deepen their knowledge of their own performance specialisms by investigating the history and performance practices of their instruments or voice types both in theory and practice. Presentation skills, and the articulation of theory and practice as oral discourse will also be developed. Modes of engagement with different styles and repertoires include listening to recordings, historical reconstruction, engagement with the historical instruments collection, creative arrangement and critical evaluation of primary sources and music editions. The exploration of different repertoires and approaches to realising them in performance will help students gain an increased awareness of their individual strengths and the confidence to make interpretative and communicative choices. Engagement with the University's Lunchtime Recitals, and/or other live/recorded performances, will offer the students the opportunity to observe different approaches to performance practice in operation and analyse and evaluate professional musicians' choices. Throughout the academic year, students develop their individual vocal and/or instrumental skills under the guidance of external specialist teachers in private lessons.
The University offers course participants a bursary for vocal/instrumental tuition; students are reimbursed up to a specified amount; costs of lessons in excess of this sum have to be paid by the student. Vocal and instrumental teachers are asked to provide progress reports on each student's work. Expenses for travelling to lessons and instrument maintenance costs may also be incurred by the students; these are not reimbursed.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Performance 1 (MUSI08073)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Performance 2 is only available to single honours Music students on the BMus and BSc Acoustics and Music Technology degrees in year 2.
"As a student on this music performance oriented course, the University will contribute towards the cost of private music tuition to support your learning.
An individual bursary fund, of a fixed value, is available to cover all such tuition across the academic year. The sum available will be communicated to you at the start of semester 1. You will need to pay for private music tuition up front, and claim the cost back from the Music department via a process outlined to you at the start of the course. The Course Organiser will support you to identify someone suitable for your instrument or voice from a list of approved tutors.
Any tuition costs incurred in excess of the fixed sum available from the bursary will have to be paid by you. You are not required to use the bursary in full nor in part.
Please note that this bursary does not cover costs associated with the maintenance and ongoing use of your instrument (e.g., replacing strings, new mouthpiece reeds for woodwinds, etc), nor does it cover the costs of travel to/from lessons. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 18,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 12,
Fieldwork Hours 10,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Summative Assessment Hours 5,
Revision Session Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
148 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
50 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
This course has three components of assessment:
1. Performance Presentation (10 minutes) that focusses on a work performed in week 12 of semester 1: (30%)
2. Programme Notes or Press Release, submitted in semester 2, c. exam week 1: 10%
3. Performance Exam (10-12 minutes), end of semester 2: 60%
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| Feedback |
Formative Feedback: students will receive verbal and/or written feedback throughout the year from the course organiser on a performance given during a Seminar. In addition to this, instrumental/vocal tutors, and the collaborative pianist will provide formative feedback throughout the academic year.
Summative Feedback: A grade and written feedback will be provided for all three summative assessment components, as per university regulations.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to prepare a critically informed musical performance
- Communicate musical ideas fluently as a verbal discourse combined with instrumental/vocal practice
- Exemplify a higher level of technical achievement and knowledge about their first-study instrument or as a singer.
- Critically evaluate their own and other musicians' performances.
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Learning Resources
Cook, Nicholas. Beyond the score: Music as performance. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Lawson, Colin, and Robin Stowell. The historical performance of music: an introduction. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Moore, Allan F. Song means: Analysing and interpreting recorded popular song. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.
Small, Christopher. Musicking: The meanings of performing and listening. Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
Treitler, Leo. Music and the historical imagination. Harvard University Press, 1989.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will develop their specialist performance skills in theory and practice while developing an overview of wider contexts. They will learn methods for carrying out research on performance practices and develop their skills in critical evaluation and analysis. Student will gain increased confidence in making interpretative choices and communicating them to live audiences while developing their ability to collaborate as well as work independently. |
| Keywords | music performance,performance practice,performance studies,musical instruments |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Richard Craig
Tel: (0131 6)51 5800
Email: rcraig3@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Rowan Paton
Tel:
Email: rpaton5@ed.ac.uk |
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