Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Course Description

Students are expected to learn and to practise their individual parts very well before each coaching. Notes, rhythms, fingerings, bowings e.t.c. should be worked out to the best of your ability in your own practice sessions. Chamber music coachings are not lessons nor practice sessions. The focus during coachings should be on the work and musical interpretation of the ensemble as a whole, not on fixing individual technical problems, nor on instructing students how to shape a basic phrase. There is therefore a greater expectation of independence in the students’ technical and musical preparation of their parts. Weekly Rehearsals 60-90 minutes weekly is the recommended minimum for the group to work together without coach, although the actual amount may be more or less depending on ability, difficulty of repertoire, and how much work needs to be done that particular week. Out of respect for each other, the students should have learned their own parts individually before rehearsals together. Each ensemble should itself determine how much rehearsing it needs in order to deliver the quality of music-making expected. There may be times when more individual work is needed than group work. At coachings, the instructor will often provide advice and instructions on what and how to rehearse. Learning how to rehearse effectively is part of the course. As such, all students will be guided and expected to undertake responsibility during rehearsals, not just rely on one “leader”, or the most outspoken person in the group all the time. Individual Practice Learn the notes, prepare the score, and interpret the music as you would your own solo music. It is inefficient and also disrespectful to your ensemble partners and coach to go to rehearsals and coachings unprepared. Students who are not prepared will be dismissed from that particular coaching session. Both individual performance and work as an ensemble is graded.

Student Outcomes

School of Music Learning Goals • Develop artistic excellence, creativity, and critical thinking skills as the foundation for all they do. • Engage audiences, with special attention to access, inclusivity and awareness. • Act as socially minded entrepreneurial musicians by inventing, developing and managing projects for community impact. • Recognize and champion diversity of all kinds and work ceaselessly to improve inclusivity in all that they do. • Leverage technology in the creation and dissemination of music.

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