| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | - |
Program Overview
Overview
This BA (Hons) Music with Teaching degree explores music, instrumental teaching and how to teach a variety of students. You will prepare to teach through practical experience, theoretical study and by learning a new instrument during your course.
This course allows you to explore the technique and mechanics of your own instrument and how it works with various learners, from young children with changing bodies to adults with more established muscular routines. You will investigate graded examination systems across classical and popular music and explore how music is taught in the National Curriculum for mainstream and special needs children and explore the psychology of learning and teaching and prepare to support individual students. Every pupil is different so you will learn to prepare, assess, reflect, and revise interactions and how teaching material is presented. Your understanding will support positive and pupil-centred teaching, instead of using a reactive approach.
As well as theoretical knowledge you will gain practical teaching experience, prepare assembly presentations and workshops for KS1 and KS2 children, and visit schools to see the different contexts you could work in as a visiting private teacher.
In your final year you will experience one-to-one and group teaching, and teach individual lessons to peers and colleagues. Recordings of these lessons will be used to reflect on your planning, progress, and effectiveness in tailoring lessons to the learning needs of individuals.
On this course you will:
Program Outline
Teaching and Assessment
How you will learn
You will study using lecturers, seminars, practical classes and workshops. You will learn from a core team of experienced and qualified tutors alongside a wide-ranging team of more than 120 specialist instrumental and vocal teachers.
You will be assessed through a range of assignments including essays, exams, performance and practical work, project work, presentations and seminar discussions.
Rob Murray
2007 Graduate, Rob is now Director of Music Academy of Schools "Being given the opportunity to teach a student on a one to one basis was an extremely valuable experience. The hands on experience gave us the opportunity to put the skills that we had learned into practice. The opportunity opened your eyes to the real world of teaching and prepared you to think with great creativity and imagination. Now, as a director of my own peripatetic music academy I continually monitor the ways in which the students learn so that our tutors deliver tuition to the highest standards."Matthew Clarke
2014 Graduate, private teacher, performer "The combination of informative lectures and seminars from superb staff with the practical placements made the IVT course a thoroughly enjoyable and enhancing learning experience. It has certainly helped me in my current private teaching practice since graduating."Jess Bhatty-Garcia
-2015 Graduate went on to enroll on a PGCE course. "The teaching modules were by far my favourite modules; the lectures were engaging, interactive and motivating. I would thoroughly recommend this course to anyone who is interested in becoming a teacher."Saara Sofia Paakko
Conservatoire student "The atmosphere at the university is lovely due to the small size of the institution, and I love being around like-minded people."The Course
What you will study
You will study a selection of core and optional modules in each year. Each module is worth a number of credits is delivered differently, depending on its content and focus of study.
This list is indicative and subject to change.
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Ensemble
Grades and Development in Playing, Singing or Dance
Music Now
Musical Grammar 1
Musical Grammar 2
Orchestral Experience
Performance Development
Professional Resilience
Technique for the Young Performer
Ensemble
Ensemble
You will produce a professional standard performance, demonstrating confidence within your chosen repertoire(s) and technical and expressive maturity. You will need an appropriate balance in programming and the ability to lean towards either a supporting or leadership role and develop your skills in hosting events and presenting the work to others.
Grades and Development in Playing, Singing or Dance
Grades and Development in Playing, Singing or Dance
This module examines the connections between the measured progress of the young player, singer or dancer and the general creative development of the child.
Sessions are focused on graded development at early stages, with particular attention being paid to the acquisition of aural training and sight reading skills.
You will consider general aspects of repertoire and skill development and students are encouraged to focus at least part of your study on an elected specialist area.
Music Now
Music Now
This module is an introduction to the various critical and analytical approaches to use when encountering new music and it will allow you to explore the skills needed during your degree and to research case studies of contemporary work.
Musical Grammar 1
Musical Grammar 1
This module will introduce, reintroduce and familiarise you with a range of aspects of musical structure and its notation. Alongside this, you will present and discuss your work, both individually and in groups – enhancing skills in teamwork and presentation, and building confidence.
Musical Grammar 2
Musical Grammar 2
This module builds on the knowledge you have accrued on music grammar and deepens your understanding of key elements of musical structure. You will continue to present and discuss your work, both individually and in groups – enhancing skills in teamwork and presentation, and building confidence.
Orchestral Experience
Orchestral Experience
Recent performance practice has seen an increased interest in the historically-informed representation of music of the 18th and 19th centuries. This module is concerned with the musical styles of the 18th and 19th centuries as explored through the performance of orchestral or other set works.
Through a combination of practical and analytical study, you will identify the major forms, writing styles, and characteristics of orchestral works or other set works in performance.
Performance Development
Performance Development
This includes your 1 to 1 tuition in your selected instrumental or vocal study.
Professional Resilience
Professional Resilience
This module will explore a range of different strategies designed to offer support to the emerging arts practitioner and will introduce students to a number of different models of successful self-development.
Technique for the Young Performer
Technique for the Young Performer
You will explore sound approaches to technique and analyse a range of technique strategies as you draw upon your own experience as a learner.
Classicism
Ensemble
History of Modern Jazz
Music and Society
Music and the Community 1: Music and the Mind
Opera and Operetta
Orchestral Experience
Performance Anxiety
Performance Development
Preparing Young Musicians for Assessment and Performance
Professional Resilience
Psychology of Learning and Teaching
Reading Popular Music
The Baroque
The Roots of Jazz
Classicism
Classicism
This module will consider the Classical style in music primarily through the work of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Special consideration will be given to problems of formal analysis and the application of the conventions of a musicology to an artistic period so much defined by the work of a very small group of outstanding composers.
You will study a variety of work: solo, ensemble and orchestral, sacred and secular. You will undertake the preparation of a presentation or lecture recital relating to a movement from a late 18th century work, as chosen by the individual.
Ensemble
Ensemble
You will produce a professional standard performance, demonstrating confidence within your chosen repertoire(s) and technical and expressive maturity. You will need an appropriate balance in programming and the ability to lean towards either a supporting or leadership role and develop your skills in hosting events and presenting the work to others.
History of Modern Jazz
History of Modern Jazz
This module will look at jazz from two perspectives.
Initially, the module will look at the history of jazz, starting with its birth in New Orleans and examining its stylistic developments concentrating on a number of key figures and movements in its evolution up to present day. However by the 1960’s, the free jazz movement began to blur the boundaries and definitions of what jazz is.
Therefore, this module will also address the issue of the process that jazz has fore grounded as an evolving art form which constantly borrows from other musical influences to create ever-renewing hybrid forms of music. In looking at these two perspectives, the answer to the question ‘what is jazz?’ will be clarified alongside an appreciation for its rich and varied musical legacy.
Music and Society
Music and Society
This module will explore a range of topics, including:
You will be encouraged to discuss your own positioning and understanding within each of these subject areas, as well as drawing upon a variety of social and cultural theories including those held within musicology.
Music and the Community 1: Music and the Mind
Music and the Community 1: Music and the Mind
This module considers how music defines and identify communities. Through an exploration of your own relationship with music, you will analyse the nature of musical experience and perception, with reference to selected musical texts.
You will identify and discuss functions of music that extend beyond entertainment. This will include examining the esoteric functions of music, shamanic practice, music and ritual, healing and therapeutic functions of music and concept of “”communitas””.
As part of this, you will examine the musical techniques that develop within such functions, including: overtone singing, collective improvisation, group drumming, chanting, vocal improvisation, intuitive harmonic voice work and interactive composition.
Opera and Operetta
Opera and Operetta
Available in two different delivery modes, this module can be followed as either a conventional weekly series of lectures during semester two, or as a week long intensive culminating in a staged performance outside the semester period.
Learning is focused on examples drawn from 19th century opera forms, seeking to develop a lively sense of the evolving performance context which came to be described as operetta.
Orchestral Experience
Orchestral Experience
Recent performance practice has seen an increased interest in the historically-informed representation of music of the 18th and 19th centuries. This module is concerned with the musical styles of the 18th and 19th centuries as explored through the performance of orchestral or other set works.
Through a combination of practical and analytical study, you will identify the major forms, writing styles, and characteristics of orchestral works or other set works in performance.
Performance Anxiety
Performance Anxiety
Examine the problem of performance anxiety and stage nerves and study the theoretical background and how to effectively deal with anxiety.
You will look at the performance itself and the surrounding physiological and psychological factors that lead to stage nerves during performance.
This module introduces a wide range of theories from relevant disciplines including cognitive behavioural therapy and neuro-linguistic programming.
Performance Development
Performance Development
This includes your 1 to 1 tuition in your selected instrumental or vocal study.
Preparing Young Musicians for Assessment and Performance
Preparing Young Musicians for Assessment and Performance
The practical, placement experience allows you to become a beginner all over again by learning a ‘new’ instrument during this term, recreating the feelings experienced by beginners.
Reflections on this experience will inform and shape your approach to teaching in placement contexts.
You will also observe school children in the early stages of learning to sing and will reflect on how the observations relate to their personal experience during the module. Various repertoire, aural tests, scales, and sight reading will be included in a broad exploration of assessment and discussions will cover the pressures or constraints that exams place on students.
Professional Resilience
Professional Resilience
This module will explore a range of different strategies designed to offer support to the emerging arts practitioner and will introduce students to a number of different models of successful self-development.
Psychology of Learning and Teaching
Psychology of Learning and Teaching
This module explores the psychology, or the internal processes, of both the teacher and student perspective during musical learning. You will develop a general understanding of the historical framework of learning theories and social frameworks with psychology.
Reading Popular Music
Reading Popular Music
You will explore key critical texts and concepts such as authenticity, anthropology, ethnography and textual analysis, applying these to a variety of models in contemporary popular music.
The Baroque
The Baroque
You will explore a broad range of musical genres, ideas, styles and constructional devices from the birth of opera in 1600, through the rapid development of concerti grossi, the mass and the oraotorio, to the seminal theoretical and compositional writings of Jean-Phillippe Rameau.
The Roots of Jazz
The Roots of Jazz
You will explore the roots of jazz and focus on the development of jazz between 1890 and 1930 as you critically analyse the social, political and cultural context in New Orleans.
Arranging for Jazz
Club Music
Communicating Music Through Movement & Gesture
Group Teaching
Introduction to Fundraising in the Arts
Musical Event
One to One Teaching
Opera
Orchestral Experience
Personal Study (Recital)
Personal Study (Written)
Post Modern Jazz
Professional Resilience
Romanticism
Structures and Politics of Rock Music
Arranging for Jazz
Arranging for Jazz
You will develop your ability to take standard repertoire from the jazz canon and rearrange it into your own personal vision, which is a key skill within the jazz domain. You will develop a personal repertoire of arrangements and compositions to prepare you to secure gigs in the future.
Club Music
Club Music
Examine how music is used in clubs, the motivations of clubbers themselves, and the development of the role of the DJ.
You will consider the way technology has shaped the experience of club music, and how legal and marketing issues have shaped its consumption.
You are encouraged to explore the influence of club culture on mainstream commercial music, and the significance of symbols associated with a variety of club cultures and subcultures.
Communicating Music Through Movement & Gesture
Communicating Music Through Movement & Gesture
This module explores the opportunities that exist for enhanced communication within the formal performance context, using the performer’s own physical projection of self and personal narrative of intention.
Work will also be developed in a broader context, allowing a deeper understanding of the semiotics of movement – the kinesic variables which impact upon the viewer – and the generic codes which attach to the music they play.
Group Teaching
Group Teaching
You will engage in workshop activities to explore the potential of strategies and material that could be used in a range of teaching contexts.
You will reflect on relationships between this activity and your practical workshop experience and complete practical experience with a musical group/class/ensemble at the university, a school, or a performance centre where you will observe the methods, manner, and style of the teacher and then design a piece for that group.
Introduction to Fundraising in the Arts
Introduction to Fundraising in the Arts
The module will consider the third-sector in relation to the other two sectors, the legal structures for non-profit organisations and regional variations in regulation, alongside the charity model in at least one other country.
Musical Event
Musical Event
You will focus on one or more major performance projects which will involve opportunities to work creatively with a variety of ensembles and collaborations, including those which cross arts disciplines. Connections will be made with current projects in other institutions and at performance venues outside the university.
One to One Teaching
One to One Teaching
This module introduces a range of techniques in structuring lessons, communicating expressive and performance based concepts and problem solving designed to create an exciting and stimulating learning experience for individual singers, dancers and actors embarking on the early stages of study.
You will set your own goals in teaching and develop skills in analysing and measuring the outcomes of lessons, using this information to inform planning for effective teaching practices.
Opera
Opera
This module takes a chronological approach to the study of the genre, beginning with the early Baroque and offering examples of differing musical styles up until the first half of the 20th century, with a particular focus on the late 18th to mid 19th centuries.
The relationship between narrative and the musical expression of dramatic tension will be explored, and lectures will make connexions between the function of musical structure and form within individual works and the development of character and plot.
Orchestral Experience
Orchestral Experience
Recent performance practice has seen an increased interest in the historically-informed representation of music of the 18th and 19th centuries. This module is concerned with the musical styles of the 18th and 19th centuries as explored through the performance of orchestral or other set works.
Through a combination of practical and analytical study, you will identify the major forms, writing styles, and characteristics of orchestral works or other set works in performance.
Personal Study (Recital)
Personal Study (Recital)
This module sees you select an area of study in performance, and develop it over an extended period.
For performers, this is an opportunity to present a longer and more challenging programme of work.
Personal Study (Written)
Personal Study (Written)
This module provides you with an opportunity to select an area of study of your choice, to research it and present your findings in written form, and to develop this over an extended period.
Post Modern Jazz
Post Modern Jazz
You will seek to find answers in a postmodern jazz world and ask if the intrinsic identity of jazz has been lost and where it can go from here. You will gain an understanding of its evolution since Coltrane by listening, playing, and analysing jazz from the 50’s to the present day.
Professional Resilience
Professional Resilience
This module will explore a range of different strategies designed to offer support to the emerging arts practitioner and will introduce students to a number of different models of successful self-development.
Romanticism
Romanticism
This module will develop your confident and probing analytical style with a close exploration of compositional intention, particularly where this is allied to programmatic or narrative elements in the models you study.
Structures and Politics of Rock Music
Structures and Politics of Rock Music
You will examine a broad range of contemporary musical texts to develop a broad definition of rock culture and use an in-depth study of a selection of significant artists and groups to provide insights into a range of stylistic and structural devices employed by rock musicians.
You will learn to demonstrate the political space inhabited by their music and complete creative tasks in song-writing and collaborative composition and improvisation.
Careers
Where you could go after your studies
This BA (Hons) Music with Teaching degree prepares you for a range of careers after you graduate. You will have the opportunity to develop a variety of transferable skills and specific subject knowledge to prepare you for life after university.
Past graduates have secured work in:
Further Study
You could choose to continue your studies at postgraduate level.
Study options at the University of Chichester include:
University of Chichester alumni who have completed a full undergraduate degree at the University will receive a 15% discount on their postgraduate fees.
