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Creative & Professional Practice 2 - MUS00200I

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  • Department: Music
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: I
  • Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
    • See module specification for other years: 2024-25

Module summary

This module supports you in your continued development as a versatile and creative musical practitioner. Alongside your ongoing solo tuition and ensemble participation, you will prepare your own professional portfolio, develop promotional materials, and reflect on your career goals and the actions you could take to work towards them.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 2 2023-24

Module aims

This module continues your development as a practical and creative musician in a variety of areas, including solo performance but also encompassing other forms of creative activity. You continue your individual tuition on a solo instrument or voice, and continue to participate in departmental ensembles, as well as receiving fortnightly seminar tuition on issues relevant to all performers, with a focus on issues of leadership and professional development relevant to more advanced students. You also continue to develop other areas of practice, such as a second instrument, composition, conducting or community work. Assessment is through a portfolio demonstrating your performance ability and documenting your multiple areas of practice in the form of a website.

Module learning outcomes

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

  • Perform as a soloist at an advanced level.

  • Perform and rehearse productively in an ensemble, taking up leadership roles or other responsibilities where appropriate.

  • Lead or constructively contribute to musical activity in a secondary area of specialism.

  • Present your creative practice in a professional manner via a website or other relevant medium.

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 40
Essay/coursework 20
Rehearsal - Department of Music only 40

Special assessment rules

Pass/fail

Additional assessment information

The assessment for this module has three related components:

1) Creative Practice as Solo Performance

Live performance of 12–15 minutes on primary instrument or voice. This performance will take place in week 11 of Semester 2.

2) Professional Practice: Promotional Website

Website documenting your areas of creative practice, with appropriate sample recordings and materials. As with Creative and Professional Practice 1, you must include at least two areas of creative practice.

3) Record of participation

This consists of two equally-weighted elements:

  • A lesson diary, with brief description of and reflection on each instrumental/vocal lesson that you have received this year;

  • A record of ensemble participation logging your engagement with ensemble rehearsal and performance.

A suggested template for these elements will be provided by the module convenor.

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 40
Essay/coursework 20
Rehearsal - Department of Music only 40

Module feedback

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

Indicative reading

Supporting materials will be provided in conjunction with specific seminars and by individual instrumental teachers/ensemble leaders as appropriate.


The information on this page is indicative of the module that is currently on offer. The University constantly explores ways to enhance and improve its degree programmes and therefore reserves the right to make variations to the content and method of delivery of modules, and to discontinue modules, if such action is reasonably considered to be necessary. In some instances it may be appropriate for the University to notify and consult with affected students about module changes in accordance with the University's policy on the Approval of Modifications to Existing Taught Programmes of Study.