Ensemble Performance 1

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Ensemble practice technique.
• Repertoire of chosen ensemble.
• Stage presentation and audience communication.
• Individual practice techniques.
• Technical problems and solutions on chosen instrument as they relate to the ensemble.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Structure rehearsal sessions effectively.
• Ability to apply ensemble practice techniques to new repertoire.
• Self-evaluate in practice and rehearsal to continue to improve.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Ability to organise your rehearsal time efficiently.
• Ability to listen more intently and critically while you are playing.
• Ability to work and perform with others.
• Ability to be self critical musically and technically.
• Ability to listen more effectively to what others in your group are saying.
• Ability to be critical of your ensemble members in a productive way.
• Ability to work and perform independently.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Greater technical control of your instrument (facility, pitch range, flexibility, tone control, muscular coordination)
• Greater musical control of your instrument (including dynamic range, colour range, shape and structure, and phrasing).
• Greater awareness of how your instrument fits in to the ensemble and the various roles it can play (accompaniment vs. soloist).

Your ensemble will meet with your coach for coaching sessions and be required to learn a programme of repertoire. You will develop your practice and rehearsal skills and , as an ensemble, take responsibility for creating a performance that showcases all members.

You will attend 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 complete one practical performance examination.

You will be expected to rehearse regularly with your ensemble in addition to regular, scheduled coaching sessions with your instructor. You will be given the opportunity to perform in classes/workshops run by Heads of Studies, 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.