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MUS2127 – Performance 2
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Tim Smart
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Performance 2, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Performance 2 (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module allows the students to deepen their performance skills, composing and/or arranging of music in a practical context. This module seeks to strengthen the performance skill of students within contemporary context across sub-cultural traditions and develop their instrumental skills, techniques and approaches related to the performance of contemporary music.
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MUS2129 – Cultural Theory 2
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Yoshe Watson
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Cultural Theory 2, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Cultural Theory 2 (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module seeks to develop skills in interpretation, criticism and evaluation of musical practice. The module examines theoretical and musicological analytical models and provides students with a context for developing their understanding of musical debate.
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MUS2130 – Composition and Theory 2
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Stace Constantinou
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Composition And Theory 2 (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Composition And Theory 2, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: The Composition module will develop students understanding of techniques and processes in music composition. Our focus is on developments in composition from the 20th Century onwards and how these innovations relate to music in the present day.
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MUS2132 – Performance With Technology
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Stace Constantinou
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Performance With Technology (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Performance With Technology, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module introduces the student to approaches to performance with technology including the application of music software such as Ableton?s Live combined with mapped MIDI controllers. The module also considers approaches to music making beyond the DAW including working with analogue synthesis, drum machines and hardware effects.
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MUS2140 – How Music Works
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Thursby
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - How Music Works (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - How Music Works, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: Understanding how music ? sound ? behaves both acoustically and psychoacoustically is a necessary requisite for a successful career in music performance, music production and sound engineering. Many areas of work within the music industry require knowledge of sound processing and acoustic principles including studio recording, live sound engineering, the design of musical instruments, music production studios and synthesis. This module is therefore one that will underpin everything you do during this course. The module will enable the musician to understand the science behind their craft so as to better navigate their musical careers.
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MUS2141 – The Creative Practitioner
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Michael Bell
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - The Creative Practitioner, Coursework: 100% STDFF - The Creative Practitioner (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module develops professional skills relevant to working both in the music industry and further afield. With a focus on enterprise, entrepreneurialism and professional development, students will explore a variety of ways by which they might manage their professional careers. Students undertake an industry placement.
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MUS2147 – Intermediate Recording Studio
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Hutchinson
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Intermediate Recording Studio (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Intermediate Recording Studio, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: The purpose of this module is to allow students to explore and develop skills within recording studios, individually or collaboratively in the capture, processing and mixing of music to an intermediate level.
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MUS2148 – Critical Listening and Mastering
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Thursby
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Critical Listening And Mastering, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Critical Listening And Mastering (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: This module looks closely at the role of the mastering engineer, the reasons behind mastering, the environment required for critical listening and how commercial needs have shaped the way we master music and sound.
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MUS2149 – Soundtracks for Games and Apps
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Michael Bell
Credit Value: 20
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Soundtracks For Games And Apps, Coursework: 100% STD - Soundtracks For Games And Apps, Coursework: 100%
Designated for:
Description: Soundtracks for Games and Apps enables higher education music production practitioners to develop both a contextualisation specific to soundtracks as deployed in the service of Gaming and Apps, as well as develop the ability to produce soundtracks for a given media.
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MUS2150 – Digital Audio Workstation 2: Synthesis
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Thursby
Credit Value: 10
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Digital Audio Workstation 2: Synthesis, Coursework: 100% STD - Digital Audio Workstation 2: Synthesis, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: Students are introduced a crucial production method found in popular music production and sound design: synthesis. The advanced use of a digital audio workstation is integral to the completion of the production tasks, where students will develop their knowledge and understanding of synthesis and sound design.
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MUS2151 – Digital Audio Workstation 2: Sampling
Field: MUSIC
Co-ordinator: Mark Thursby
Credit Value: 10
Level: 5
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Digital Audio Workstation 2: Sampling, Coursework: 100% STD - Digital Audio Workstation 2: Sampling, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA Music Production; BA Music Production (4 Year Programme); BA Popular Music; BA Popular Music (4 Year Programme);
Description: Students are introduced to a key production method found in popular music production: sampling. The advanced use of a digital audio workstation is integral to the completion of the production tasks, where students will develop their knowledge and understanding of digital audio and sampling.