Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2022-2023 (archived)

Module MUSI3751: Techniques Portfolio (single)

Department: Music

MUSI3751: Techniques Portfolio (single)

Type	Open	Level	3	Credits	20	Availability	Available in 2022/23	Module Cap	None.	Location	Durham

Prerequisites

MUSI2601 Advanced Musical Techniques

Corequisites

None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

MUSI3762 Techniques Portfolio (double).

Aims

To provide an opportunity for students to express their creativity at advanced level through the production of a portfolio of pastiche compositions using techniques and styles from the 16th, 17th, 18th or19th centuries, or broadly 'tonal' styles from the early decades of the 20th century.

Content

Guidance will be given in tutorials on the composition of larger-scale works, including, but not limited to, passacaglia, fugue, chorale prelude, variations, sonata form movements, partsong, concert overture and orchestral character piece.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

Students will become familiar with a range of compositional techniques that are available for the creation of music, and be able to demonstrate how these may be used imaginatively and effectively.

Subject-specific Skills:

Students will acquire the skills necessary to compose with maturity, authority and originality, building on the aesthetic considerations and techniques they have encountered at Levels 1 and 2. A greater ambition is to be encouraged regarding the size and scope of composition at Level 3.

Key Skills:

Compositional techniques used in an appropriate way to articulate each student's musical ideas and to demonstrate an identification with various established styles.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

The module will be delivered through individual tutorials through which students will be assisted in the preparation of a portfolio of pastiche compositions.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Activity	Number	Frequency	Duration	Total/Hours
Tutorials	8	Spread out through the year, mainly in Terms 1 and 2	30 minutes	4
Reading, listening and preparation				196
TOTAL				200

Summative Assessment

Component: Portfolio of Pastiche Compositions		Component Weighting: 100%
Element	Length / duration	Element Weighting	Resit Opportunity
Portfolio of Pastiche Compositions lasting between 10 and 12 minutes in all, (excluding exactly repeated sections such as sonata expositions), with an accompanying 1,200 word commentary	10-12 minutes with an accompanying 1,200 word commentary	100%	no

Formative Assessment:

Small technical exercises set at tutorials.

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University