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Creative Practice Portfolio - MUS00107M

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  • Department: Music
  • Credit value: 60 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
    • See module specification for other years: 2023-24
  • Notes: This is an independent study module

Module summary

‘Capstone’ composition module: the production of a creative practice portfolio as a springboard for professional or higher level practice research work.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 2 2024-25 to Summer Semester 2024-25

Module aims

In this module you will draw on the creative, technical, and research skills you have developed in previous modules to produce a substantial portfolio of compositions. The portfolio may be a single extended work, a multi-movement composition, a collection of independent pieces or some combination of these, but will in each case represent a coherent and unified project of work exploring a particular approach to creative practice. You will build on your experience of writing critical commentaries in CCP1 and CCP2 alongside the tools developed in Research Skills for Musicians to present your creative work as practice research.

Individual tutorials and group seminars continue in semester 2 to support the development of your ideas, but the focus of this module is on independent work.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of the module you should be able to:

  • Display a sophisticated and individual approach to composition.

  • Articulate the distinctiveness of their individual creative practice in terms of practice research.

  • Independently seek out relevant textual and musical materials to support the search for aesthetic and technical solutions to challenges in their creative practice.

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 90
Essay/coursework 10

Special assessment rules

None

Additional assessment information

Portfolio of one or more compositions, presented as a unified single project, of total duration 15-25 minutes (90%)
+
Critical commentary of c.1500 words articulating the work as practice research. (10%)

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 90

Module feedback

You will receive written feedback in line with standard University turnaround times.

Indicative reading

Reading and listening suggestions will be made by your supervisor, tailored to your own interests and needs.


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