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ATS1044

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music

Coordinator(s)

Dr Kenji Fujimura (Classical); Dr Paul Williamson (Jazz)

Offered

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

Synopsis

The unit draws together students from various levels of musical experience at pre-tertiary level and consolidates fundamental skills in music performance. Students develop instrumental/vocal technical and performance skills that prepare them for the repertoire-based focus of the next unit in the sequence, ATS1045 Performance 2.

Outcomes

Upon completion of the unit, students are able to:

  1. Demonstrate fundamental conventions of instrumental/vocal technique;
  2. Demonstrate fundamental control of rhythm, articulation, timbre and intonation (if applicable) through the performance of appropriate technical work;
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of relevant repertoire through the preparation of technical work, etudes and instrumental/vocal literature appropriate to this foundational level of tertiary performance;
  4. Demonstrate musicianship through the fundamental understanding of phrasing, dynamic control and general expression.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 10%
Exam: 90%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Kenji Fujimura

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Ethnomusicology and musicology
Music performance

Prerequisites

This unit is only available to students enrolled in a Bachelor of Music single or double degree - Music performance or Ethnomusicology and musicology specialisations.

Prohibitions

ATS1349