School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Refine performance techniques and expand repertoire
  • Unit Code

    CUAMPF603
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    65
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Stewart James SMITH

Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to expand repertoire and present an extended professional performance.
It applies to musicians or vocalists with a higher level of skills in areas such as performance preparation, craft skills and musicianship as they seek regular professional performance opportunities. They may be refining skills on either a first or second instrument.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Elements

  • 1. Use personal practice time to refine skills
  • 2. Plan repertoire to meet performance goals
  • 3. Convey interpretive and expressive qualities in performance
  • 4. Present a professional performance program to an audience
  • 5. Evaluate technical skills in performance

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:
- develop and implement a plan to refine own performance technique
- plan and present a performance program of a professional standard, on at least two occasions, to an audience
- monitor progress of own skill development, expanding repertoire in area of specialisation and incorporating feedback on own performance.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:
- explain strategies and exercises for refining technical skills and performance techniques
- describe qualities that contribute to professional standard performance
- describe typical issues and challenges that arise in the context of refining performance technique and expanding repertoire, and how to address them
- describe work health and safety principles relevant to professional performance contexts.

Assessment

Assessment must be conducted in a safe environment where evidence gathered demonstrates consistent performance of typical activities experienced in creative arts industry environments. The assessment environment must include access to:
- relevant instrument and equipment
- opportunities to present performance programs before an audience
- suitable acoustic space.

Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational educational and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Assessment

GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA VET only

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Refine performance techniques and expand repertoire
  • Unit Code

    CUAMPF603
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Nominal Hours

    65
  • Full Year Unit

    Y
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Stewart James SMITH

Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to expand repertoire and present an extended professional performance.
It applies to musicians or vocalists with a higher level of skills in areas such as performance preparation, craft skills and musicianship as they seek regular professional performance opportunities. They may be refining skills on either a first or second instrument.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Elements

  • 1. Use personal practice time to refine skills
  • 2. Plan repertoire to meet performance goals
  • 3. Convey interpretive and expressive qualities in performance
  • 4. Present a professional performance program to an audience
  • 5. Evaluate technical skills in performance

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:
- develop and implement a plan to refine own performance technique
- plan and present a performance program of a professional standard, on at least two occasions, to an audience
- monitor progress of own skill development, expanding repertoire in area of specialisation and incorporating feedback on own performance.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:
- explain strategies and exercises for refining technical skills and performance techniques
- describe qualities that contribute to professional standard performance
- describe typical issues and challenges that arise in the context of refining performance technique and expanding repertoire, and how to address them
- describe work health and safety principles relevant to professional performance contexts.

Assessment

Assessment must be conducted in a safe environment where evidence gathered demonstrates consistent performance of typical activities experienced in creative arts industry environments. The assessment environment must include access to:
- relevant instrument and equipment
- opportunities to present performance programs before an audience
- suitable acoustic space.

Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational educational and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Assessment

GS5 VET GRADING SCHEMA Used for WAAPA VET only

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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