Course overview
This course seeks to give participants in-depth practical experience of pedagogically significant repertoire from elementary and intermediate levels through the preparation and presentation of a lecture/demonstration. It is expected participants will perform illustrative extracts of a substantial nature to a high standard with a well-balanced, lucid commentary covering points of pedagogical significance, including a viva voce.
Participants are required to underpin their lecture/demonstration through the agency of good quality program notes. This course allows students to reflect on their own areas for personal development, alongside developing their awareness of sequential learning on their instrument. Students will explore how to create effective practice routines to meet the demands of various skills and challenges and will deepen their ability to analyse and interpret repertoire. Students will also develop their skills as communicators, both verbally and through musical performances and participate in performance classes.
Clear and detailed documentation in a Teaching Log/Portfolio of activities including lesson observations, reflections, rehearsal and concert observations and attendance at Elder Conservatorium performance-based activities.
Course learning outcomes
- Develop student technical skill to an appropriate level for seamless, consistent and wide ranging tonal production and fluency in the performance of pedagogically significant works of elementary to intermediate levels of difficulty
- Develop stylistic awareness to an appropriate level for historically informed and compositionally empathetic performance of pedagogically significant works of elementary to intermediate levels of difficulty
- Develop their interpretive ability to an appropriate level for insightful and creative performance of pedagogically significant works of elementary to intermediate levels of difficulty.
- Increase the scope of their performance repertoire to encompass a variety of pedagogically significant works of elementary to intermediate levels of difficulty
- Develop sound pedagogical principles that enable insightful verbal commentary to be made concerning the purposes and contexts of repertoire being performed
- Further develop a fluent use of spoken language that adequately underpins and communicates ideas and concepts being outlined during a lecture/recital
- Increase their perception of and focus on the constituent elements of pedagogy and performance to ensure congruency between verbal commentary and performance practice undertaken during a lecture/demonstration
- Develop effective autonomous and well directed practice regimes that build towards a finessed and meaningful lecture/demonstration performance