First Year Ensemble Performance

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• stage presentation and audience communication.
• effective programming of the repertoire for your chosen ensemble.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate musical control of your instrument within an ensemble.
• demonstrate technical control of your instrument within an ensemble.
• demonstrate awareness of how your instrument or voice fits in to an ensemble.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• organise your time efficiently.
• work and perform independently.
• work and perform with others.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• be critical of your ensemble members in a productive way.
• be self critical musically and technically.

This module is designed for musicians to develop their technical, musical, and listening skills on their chosen instrument by applying it to ensemble performance. Your ensemble will meet with your instructor for coaching sessions and be required to learn repertoire appropriate to your level and year.

You will have the opportunity to attend and perform in lunchtime concerts and engage in relevant performance projects and workshops run by visiting musicians, members of the department and Heads of Performance. You will be required to give one assessed ensemble performance at the end of semester 2.

You will meet with your ensemble coach for regular practical sessions in addition to your independent practice as a group. You will be given the opportunity to perform in classes/workshops run by Heads of Performance, department performance projects (often resulting in public performance), as well as the opportunity to take part in workshops and masterclasses with visiting performers and the lunchtime concert series. You will also learn while listening and observing lunchtime concerts.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.