Studying at York
Alternative Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Ideas about Performance - MUS00040C
- Department: Music
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: C
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
Module summary
This module will explore how music performance relates to other forms of performance. Music performance will be set in context as part of a wider phenomenon of performance in everyday life.
Module will run
| Occurrence | Teaching period |
|---|---|
| A | Autumn Term 2022-23 |
Module aims
This project will explore how music performance is part of a wider phenomenon of performance in everyday life and ritual. It will draw on theories that originated outside musicology, and will focus on key ideas from performance studies, a discipline that grew out of a combination of theatre studies and anthropology. Selected theatre theory will also be examined and applied to performances involving music. In this way, students will be encouraged to
- consider performance from new angles
- think about the wider social contexts of music performance
- examine their own modes of performance critically
Module learning outcomes
On completion of the project, all students should
- understand how music studies can intersect with interdisciplinary performance theory
- demonstrate familiarity with a number of performance studies theories
- have acquired the knowledge to apply performance theory to music
- have gained the critical distance necessary to reflect on their own performance of music
In their independent work, first-year students should demonstrate Learning Outcomes A1-6
Indicative assessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Special assessment rules
None
Indicative reassessment
| Task | % of module mark |
|---|---|
| Essay/coursework | 100 |
Module feedback
Report form, with marks to student no later than 6 weeks from submission of assessment
Indicative reading
Schechner, Richard. Performance Studies: An Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2002.
Cook, Nicholas. Between Process and Product: Music and/as Performance, Music Theory Online 7/2 (April 2001).
Auslander, Philip. Musical Personae, The Drama Review 50/1 (Spring 2006), 100-119.
Auslander, Philip. Liveness. Performance in a Mediatized Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
Davis, Tracy C. The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Counsell, Colin and Laurie Wolf, eds. Performance Analysis. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2001.