MUS20030

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should be able to:·
- Identify and analyse the major dance types in Irish music·
- Provide an overview of sean-nós style and structure·
- Provide a comparative perspective on English-language traditional song
- Outline the history of at least two collectors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries·
- Assess the relative efficacy of performance theory and various performance venues

Indicative Module Content:

Major dance types
Instruments of the Tradition
Performance theory and venues
Collectors, their times, and archives
Sean-nós singing
English-language song

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Lectures, supplemented by discussion based on the close reading of texts.
Detailed listening and analysis.

Students will be provided with a weekly resource pack on Brightspace (UCD's virtual learning environment), which will consist of audio (and sometimes video) examples of music, required and supplementary reading material, short video lectures and/or powerpoint slides, and (sometimes) musical scores. Weekly live virtual classes will consist of both lecture and discussion. Students are expected to attend these live sessions, and to have reviewed the materials in the folder for that week prior to attending (all materials will generally be posted one week in advance of the virtual class).

Weekly attendance is expected and will be monitored, though of course we are aware of the fact that these are challenging times, and students may have a valid reason for missing one.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Recommendations:

Students should have some knowledge of music theory and notation.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Aural examinations, designed to ensure students' familiarity with the music studied, will be returned and reviewed on a regular basis. The fieldwork prolject, designed to expose students to the living tradition, will be returned with a grade and commentary.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.