Principal Study Performance 2
This module builds upon the work of Stage 1 of the programme, allowing you to further extend and deepen your musical work in a range of contexts.
Module aims
This module is designed to:
- Foster advanced technical and expressive mastery in the principal study
- Develop a mature and individual musical personality and provide opportunities for its projection in-and-through practice
- Expand a knowledge base that supports understanding and facilitates the solving of complex musical problems
- Consolidate the skills to pursue and sustain fulfilling, lifelong learning leading to informed performance at a professional level and potentially leading to further higher degrees and research
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module you will be able to:
- LO1 Show advanced technical and expressive mastery in your principal study
- LO2 Project a mature and individual musical personality in-and-through your principal study
- LO3 Employ critical thinking in-and-through the process of making music
Assessment
Assessment 1: Performance B (50% or 25% + 25%)
Assessed LOs: 1, 2, 3.
Assessment 2: Performance A (50%)
Assessed LOs: 1, 2, 3.
As well as offering a heightened level of demand, the Stage 2 Assessment Specifications give you the opportunity to challenge and extend your musicality through one of two specialist options: the ‘Agential Artist’, in which you work with students on the MFA Classical and Contemporary Text to devise and perform new work; and the self-created ‘Independent Project’.
Assessment criteria
Assessors will look for:
LO1 – Demonstrate advanced technical and expressive mastery in your principal study
- perceptive listening
- agility/fluency
- range and quality of production/projection of sound/tone/timbre
- exploitation of the capabilities of the instrument
- melodic shaping, line and texture
- dynamic range and shaping
- rhythmic structure and control
- intonation
- accuracy, technical and textual
- in vocal performance: pronunciation, accent, languages
LO2 – Project a mature and individual musical personality in-and-through your principal study
- committed, communicative and engaging response to the music
- performances which can challenge both the artist and audience
- creativity in performance
- stage presence
- give and take in ensemble partnerships
- musicality in relation to technique (technical freedom and mastery to realise musical intent)
in Collaboration on Creation of New Work
- critical understanding of the collaborative process
- creative and effective collaboration with the composer
LO3 – Employ critical thinking in-and-through the process of making music
- artistic vision
- imagination
- interpretative decisions
- articulation of structure and form
- understanding of genre, style and idiom
- knowledge of the repertoire
- informed programme choices
- appropriate structure and order of programme
- contribution to audience experience
in Studio Recording Projects:
- an informed and considered choice of recorded sound quality appropriate to the repertoire
- an informed and considered choice of editing points appropriate to the recording
- ownership of and engagement in all aspects of process
- rationale for choice of repertoire, sound quality and edit points
- an understanding of context with reference to other recordings
Feedback
You will recieve regular formative feedback from your tutor in your lessons, and a written report twice a year. In some departments the tutor report will take the form of a mutually constructed feedback session.
You will receive a written feedback report on each A and B assessment.
Resources
Essential
Key resources will be recommended by principal study tutors.
Summary details
| Module title | Principal Study Performance 2 |
|---|---|
| SCQF level | 11 |
| Credit rating | 90 SCQF (45 ECTS) |
| Total notional student effort hours | 900 |
| Status | Core |
| Module coordinator | Head of Department |
| Pre-requisites | Principal Study Performance 1 |
| Co-requisites | Supporting Studies 2 |
| Anti-requisites | None |
| Learning modes | Indicative hours |
| Scheduled study | 30 (minimum) |
| Independent study | 870 (maximum) |
| Total notional student effort | 900 |