This practical unit draws together students from different levels of musical experience at pre-tertiary level, and consolidates essential musicianship, technical skills and repertory in either performance or composition. For performers, the emphasis is on development of instrumental technique and performance skills including developing an awareness of psychological, biomechanical/performance health concepts, and preparing students for the repertoire-based focus of the next unit in the sequence, MUSC1342 Practical Music 2. For composers, technical skills are developed through short composition exercises based on pertinent examples from the repertoire of twentieth- and twenty-first-century... -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Graeme Gilling and Assistant Professor Christopher Tonkin
Prerequisites: pass SOM audition/composition portfolio and must be enrolled in the Music Studies major (degree-specific major)