Module manager: Scott McLaughlin
Email: s.mclaughlin@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The module introduces a variety of approaches to making and composing music from a range of traditions from the past fifty years, including new concert music, experimental popular music, and electronic music. Students will encounter a wide repertoire of musics from artists working in these and other related areas, and will create new work for instruments, electronic media, or a mixture of both, in response to the ideas and methods studied.
The module introduces you to a wide range of recent approaches to making and composing music, from multiple traditions, considering how and why you might make use of these approaches in your own creative work. You will demonstrate your learning through the creation of new work, reflecting on and contextualising what you have done in an accompanying commentary.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Deploy fundamental approaches to the creation of music
2. Communicate creative ideas in ways appropriate to writing and making music
Skills Learning Outcomes
3. Independently locate, assess, and reference relevant creative work
4. Reflect on your own learning, achievement, and personal/professional development
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seminar | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Independent online learning hours | 30 | ||
| Private study hours | 150 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students will regularly undertake practical exercises in class time which point towards their final submission, receiving regular formative feedback from staff on in-progress work.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | ca. 5m creative musical output, submitted as score, fixed media, or mixed media, with accompanying 500–1000-word commentary | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 2/15/2024
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