This course introduces fundamental technical and musical training to facilitate greater proficiency and understanding of your chosen musical instrument and repertoire.

Tuition

Students will have the opportunity to work in an intensive and stimulating learning environment, that will either comprise of solo lessons or specialised group classes. These will be arranged with your individual teacher in the first week of semester. Students are also required to attend the studio classes of the instrument they are learning, and the weekly performance hour every Friday.

Attendance and absence: You are expected to be warmed-up and ready for your lessons and classes at the allocated time. As this course involves a lecturer/student ratio of 1:1, you must give as much notice as possible to your tutor/lecturer of any unavoidable absence. The tutor/lecturer is under no obligation to allocate an alternative time.

Preparation: You are expected to arrive at your lessons and classes having fully prepared the material set by your tutor/lecturer. This requires self-discipline and thorough practice. You are welcome to utilise the practice facilities available in the Music Programme, but you should also expect to practise at home. Practice rooms may be booked by MUSIC101 students. Please be considerate to each other in your use of the rooms. Booking charts can be found on the door of each room.

Instrumental/Voice Class

As mentioned above MUSIC101 students must also attend the group classes that all BMus performance majors attend. Vocal, Piano, Violin, Cello and Wind class run at varying times over the week at the Academy of Performing Arts. Times will be arranged at the beginning of each semester. Please inquire with your instrumental/vocal lecturer if you are unsure of times and locations. If there are clashes with your timetable for your Major studies, please discuss this with your teacher, or Stephanie Acraman - Head of Performance.

Performance Hour

Friday, 1-2.30pm Concert Chamber, Academy of Performing Arts

You are required to attend these sessions, contribute to the discussions, and perform as directed by your performance teacher. Should your teacher ask you to perform in Performance Hour, you should book by using the google ‘Friday Performance Hour and Resthome’ booking calendar, or ask an administrator to do this. Note that MUSIC101 students are not included in the Concert Duties roster, this involves BMus performance students only.

Progress Assessments 60%

These assessments will take into consideration the following:

- Ability to take onboard ideas given to you during one-on-one lessons, and groups classes

- Class preparation

- Management of self directed learning

- Proactive approach to learning music given to you

- Level of development across assessment periods

- Participation in group classes

- Abilty to work with those around you

FInal Performance Assessment (40%)

You must give a technical presentation (e.g. scales, arpeggios, studies, sight-reading etc.) and present a programme of works displaying the variety and extent of your techniques. Your test should last a total of up to 20 minutes, including technical presentation and programme, and may be divided between two assessments, Semester A and Semester B, or can be taken as one examination at a time that is set by your teacher.

You will be graded on technical achievement and also musical understanding. The following qualities will be examined in order to ascertain technical achievement; posture, breath control, tone quality, rhythmic understanding, intonation, understanding and execution of technique as appropriate to the works being performed (ie appropriate bowing technique, shifting).

Final performance assessment content: Programme and length must be presented exactly as instructed and can only be changed by agreement with your tutor/lecturer.