Module manager: Emily Payne
Email: e.l.payne@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
On this module, you’ll explore how psychological research data, models and theories have been used to explain a range of behaviours associated with listening to and performing music. This may include consideration of topics such as musical preferences, everyday functions of music listening, practice and the development of performance skills, the role of the body in performance, and music performance anxiety.
This module aims to support your exploration of how music psychology data, models and theories can be used to explain musical performance and music listening behaviours. Topics relating to music listening may include everyday listening behaviours, musical preferences, and emotion and meaning in music. Topics relating to the psychology of music performance may include planning performances, rehearsing and collaboration, body movement in performance and music performance anxiety. Lecture-seminars and tutor-led discussion will introduce you to conceptual frameworks to contextualise your independent study. You will critically examine both theoretical and empirical sources, relating this knowledge to your own music listening and performance experiences.
At the end of this module you will be able to:
1. Analyse the psychological factors that underpin musical performance and listening behaviours
2. Show how empirical evidence can be used to inform theory and practice in listening and performance psychology
3. Demonstrate how research in music psychology and related disciplines can explain your own music listening and performance experiences
Skills Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module you will be able to:
4. Analyse sources to appraise, debate and defend scholarly arguments
5. Communicate ideas in clear and structured ways
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | 9 | 2 | 18 |
| Practical | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Independent online learning hours | 2 | ||
| Private study hours | 178 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
A 2-hour workshop will enable students to receive feedback on the first of the summative portfolio items. This feedback will be provided by a tutor as well as peers, supporting students to prepare for the summative assessment.
Formative feedback will also be provided in response to contributions to lecture-seminars throughout the module.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Portfolio | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
Check the module area in Minerva for your reading list
Last updated: 21/03/2025
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