MUSA241-23S1 (A) Semester One 2023 (The Arts Centre Christchurch)

Performance Major 2A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2023
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2023
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 5 March 2023
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 May 2023

Description

Performance work involving weekly individual lessons, performance classes and ensemble training in an approved instrument or in voice.

The course aims to develop technical skills, musical knowledge and understanding in an instrument or voice, through regular lessons, practice and rehearsals that lead to three (or more) public performances through the semester, one of which is an end-of-semester assessment concert. The course also develops knowledge of repertoire for the specific instrument or voice, as well as a working knowledge of chamber and ensemble music that includes it. To support the public performance skills expected of the student, attendance is required at a weekly Combined Performance Workshop (Wednesday 5–6:30pm); also required is attendance at a Performance Class related specifically to their instrument/voice; and the students are also expected to be available for at least four of the Friday lunchtime (1:10-2pm) concerts held in the Arts Centre Recital Room to perform and/or support (by listening to) their community of fellow students, performance staff and selected guests.
This is the third course in a sequence that leads the student towards MUSA342, in which the student will be expected to demonstrate a high level of performance to an external audience.

Learning Outcomes

▪ Technical performance skills in an instrument or voice;
▪ Music understanding through performance in an instrument or voice;
▪ A knowledge of solo and ensemble repertoire for a specific instrument or voice;
▪ A body of solo and ensemble repertoire for a specific instrument or voice;
▪ Public performing skills, including public speaking and engagement with one’s community;
▪ Transferable skills: Setting and achieving goals; time management; performance under pressure; persistence; self-motivation; connection to community.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Engaged with the community

Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

Prerequisites

MUSA142 with a C grade or higher, or
MUSA143 with an A grade or higher, and at least 15 points from MUSA100, MUSA101, MUSA120, MUSA121, MUSA125, and approval of the Head of School.

Restrictions

MUSI 241

Timetable Note

Student workload (150 hours) will be allocated to:
• 12 hours attending lessons
• 36 hours attending Performance Workshop (Wednesday 5:00-6:30pm) / other performance classes and/or masterclasses
• 4 – 12 hours attending and/or performing at UC Friday lunchtime concerts
• 90 – 116 hours individual practice, rehearsals, and performances

Course Coordinator

Mark Menzies

Lecturer

Justin DeHart

Individual Performance Teachers are assigned to each student

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Participation 30% Teacher's grade for participation in the individual lessons and any technical exams.
Combined Performance Workshop attendance and engagement 10% Participation in the Combined Performance Workshop (Monday 6:30-8pm), and any Performance Class specific to their instrument are important support systems to the learning environment provid-ed by private lessons. All vocalists are encouraged to take part in a performance project connected with the Consortia singers & band; this will meet on Thursdays at 6:30-8:30 in the Arts Centre Re-cital Room.
Performance Class appropriate to the participant's instrument or voice 10% Participation in the Combined Performance Workshop (Monday 6:30-8pm), and any Performance Class specific to their instrument are important support systems to the learning environment provid-ed by private lessons. All vocalists are encouraged to take part in a performance project connected with the Consortia singers & band; this will meet on Thursdays at 6:30-8:30 in the Arts Centre Re-cital Room.
Public Performance 1 and 2 with self-reflection 50% A minimum of two public performances throughout the semester, either on the Friday lunchtime concert series, at the Combined Performance workshops (Monday at 6:30pm) or another venue, as arranged with the Head of Performance; a self-reflection needs to be submitted on LEARN within one week of each performance. The two (or more) performances through the semester ask the stu-dent to aspire to an artistic performance of solo - or small ensemble repertoire that features the stu-dent's instrument or voice - with stage presence, interpretative insight, as well as the successful in-tegration of a developing "technical" mastery.


Please check the course LEARN page for further details and updates.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $916.00

International fee $4,488.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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