Performance Research Seminar 1.2

Subject 758-635 (2009)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2009.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 7 (Graduate/Postgraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 12 x 2 hour seminar per semester
Total Time Commitment: 24 hours in semester 2
Prerequisites: None
Corequisites: None
Recommended Background Knowledge: None
Non Allowed Subjects: None
Core Participation Requirements:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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Subject Overview: This subject is designed to enable students, through introspection, discussion, demonstration and performance to develop and articulate a personal view of what it means to be a performing musician in the current age. Research embraces relevant areas of performance psychology, and interrogation and re-visioning of dominant discourses in music and language, combined with increasing self-knowledge. Students are encouraged to be independent thinkers and emancipated art makers with enhanced (and sometimes new) competencies.
Assessment: Semester 1 & 2 Continuous: participation in seminars (10%). Formal: A lecture/demonstration of 45 minutes approximately followed by group discussion (one per semester) (90%).
Prescribed Texts: None
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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Links to further information: http://www.vca.unimelb.edu.au/musiccourses/
Related Course(s): Master of Music Performance(VCA)

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