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Creative Musicianship (MUSI08077)

Subject

Music

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

1

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students should have the equivalent of Grade VI Music Theory. **Please see Additional Restrictions below**

Course Summary

This course offers a holistic introduction to being a creative musician, focusing on skills inherent to making, performing, and listening to music. The first semester focuses on creative practice group work, ultimately putting together a performance, with other musicians, of newly created works. The second semester focuses on some approaches to putting together the various 'building blocks' of music (both in a written and an aural sense) especially from a harmonic and rhythmic perspective.

Course Description

This course provides building blocks for music students who will go on to study at level 10. The first semester is intensely practical, focusing on creative collaborative practice, which ends in a group performance of newly created material. The teaching comprises fortnightly lectures and tutorials. The second semester focuses on acquiring written and aural skills which feature in many of the kinds of music that students will study later through their degree, including (eg.) introductions to 4-part harmony (song arrangements, chorales, barbershop), arranging jazz standards, working from leadsheets, approaches to rhythm and metre, and aural dictation. This semester offers weekly lectures and tutorials. The learning experience brings together a number of different approaches. Music analysis will be taught and examined in both a literate and aural manner, alongside creative musicianship through performance and composition. Performance and listening will be a continuous part of the course, even for those sessions that focus on traditional analytical approaches, allowing students to engage with the music studied through performance at keyboard, with the voice, or on their own first-study instruments.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 50%, Coursework 50%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Enrolment in this course is via the CAHSS Visiting Student Office only. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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