MO4S16 - Performance: Practice and Presentation 16 Mar 2016 - 31 Aug 2027 | Version 1
Associated Module Information
| Module Code: | MO4S16 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Module Title: | Performance: Practice and Presentation | ||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Business and Creative Industries | ||
| Faculty Group: | Music and Drama | ||
| Faculty Sub Group: | Music | ||
| Module Leader: | Alun Tomos | ||
| Module Team: | Matthew Evans, Lucy Squire | ||
| First Intended Intake: | SEP 2015 | Final Year of Intake: | |
| Date Closed: | |||
| Credit Value: | 20 | Credit Level: | 7 |
| Language: | English | ||
| Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: | 0 | ||
| Equivalent Module: | |||
| HECOS codes: | 100695 - music composition | ||
| HECOS Code Weighting: | 100 | ||
Document Version Information
| Version | 1 |
|---|---|
| Valid From | 16 Mar 2016 |
| Valid To | 31 Aug 2027 |
Module Aims
This module aims:
1. To enable students to acquire a sophisticated comprehension of appropriate and relevant performance techniques and strategies, applicable to their own singer-songwriter practice.
2. To support students to cultivate a higher-level understanding of core and advanced performance skills required to be an effective singer-songwriter, such as set-list planning, public delivery, and performer-audience relationships.
3. To establish an opportunity for students to plan, develop and present a performance project (solo or collaborative), through which they will obtain the skills to analyse and evaluate a range of approaches to performance, and critically reflect on the development and final outcome of their project.
Content Summary
The module provides the student with the opportunity for a sustained period of simulated and/or professional practice. The live performance at the end of the module will be developed through tutorial guidance and the student will use established and/or experimental processes to achieve their aims.
Indicative content:
• How to get a gig – strategies and networking
• Organising a touring schedule
• Persona and appearance
• Presentation (visuals)
• Programme planning (‘the set-list’)
• Managing the stage space
• Mic techniques
• ‘Working’ the room and the venue
• Managing the audience – reception theory and audience response theory
• Managing the sound check
• ‘Scaling’ the performance - venue size
• Responding to the performance context – audiences and occasions
• Stage and performance techniques – finding a ‘distinctive voice’
• Warming-up techniques – preparing the voice and body
• Vocal techniques – developing breath control, understanding vocal projection and voice protection
• Physicality
Learning and Teaching Methods
| Activity Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 4 |
| Seminar | 4 |
| Tutorial | 3 |
| Project supervision | 6 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 20 |
| Supervised time in studio/workshop | 10 |
| Directed Study | 150 |
| Formative Assessment - Scheduled | 3 |
| Total Hours Selected | 200 |
Learning Outcomes
| # | Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| LO1 | Analyse a range of performance strategies available to the professional singer-songwriter, informed by current research about ‘best’ practice, applying some appropriate strategies to the performance project (knowledge base). |
| LO2 | Devise, revise, organise and deliver an effective solo or collaborative performance project (live, or recorded, or online), synthesizing information about the performance conditions and context, and using the ‘Artist’s Statement’ to interpret and defend decisions made (analysis and synthesis). |
| LO3 | Construct and evaluate an appropriate, well-managed set-list, making sound judgments about the material selected for the target audience - which may be specialist or non-specialist (application of skills). |
Module Requisites
N/A
Assessment Criteria
| Assessment Category | Assessment Type | Description | Duration | Word Count | Weight (%) | Best of? | Pass Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practical | _Practical Assessment 2 | Summative: Performance (live, or recorded, or on-line, 20 minute max), accompanied by an ‘Artist’s Statement’ (1000 words). The performance and the Artist’s Statement both contribute to the single grade awarded | 20 | 1000 | 70 | No | 40 |
| Practical | _Practical Assessment 1 | Formative: Practical presentation of the work-in- progress, accompanied by a written Action Plan (2000 words) for the envisaged, finished performance. It is the Action Plan that is marked, not the practical work-in-progress. | 10 | 2000 | 30 | No | 40 |
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LO1 | LO2 | LO3 | |
| _Practical Assessment 2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| _Practical Assessment 1 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |