Details for MUS230 Music Performance

This immersive subject enhances your stage presence and technical skills through practical experience and peer feedback. Engage in solo and ensemble performances across diverse genres, while focusing on key techniques such as managing performance stress and understanding audience perception. This unit ideal for those looking to deepen their performance repertoire and professional readiness in a supportive, dynamic environment.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: MUS230
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Appraise musical performances;
2. Diagnose an audience’s engagement with and appreciation of performances;
3. Organise effective performance preparations and rehearsals;
4. Employ appropriate exercises to extend technique ;
5. Prepare and perform pieces that extend student’s repertoire.

Subject Content

• The nature of performing, and the performer
• Evaluating performances
  • Criteria
  • Biases
  • 360 degree
• Performance craft
• Performance preparation
  • Choosing repertoire
  • Rehearsing
  • Time-frame
• Performance organisation
  • Pre and post
  • Communication
  • Logistics
  • People/Relationships
• Negotiating, contracts, and invoicing
• Lessons, mentors, and peers

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face (onsite)
• Distance/E-learning (online)
• Intensive (One week: 7 hours per day for 5 days = 35 class hours + approx 85 hours out of class time for research, writing, exam preparation and execution, ancillary activities associated with completion of assigned tasks)

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Performance Reviews (35%)
• Rehearsals (15%)
• Performance(s) (50%)

Prescribed Text

• Primary readings provided