Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19
This course explores and develops keyboard skills for a range of musical contexts and aims to develop the practical skills and tackle challenges faced by accompanying in a 21st century setting. Key aspects of music are explored including musicianship, harmony, stylistic chord progressions and voicings, realising accompaniments and blending of the formal with the unexpected.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 2 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Going Beyond The Keys is an experiential, ‘hands on’, course which aims to explore the wide range of accompanying skills needed to become confident in the art of accompanying for the wide range of contexts musicians face in the 21st century.
This course provides students opportunities to
develop and deploy theory, harmony, scales and musicianship through their accompanying and begin to synthesise these key components in an effective way at the keyboard. Students will begin to understand a variety of stylistic ways of accompaniment and the many contexts in which they may encounter these and begin to understand the dependent nature of the formal and the informal in in contexts such as:
- choirs, instrumental, classroom, community and theatre.
Main Learning Outcomes
Through hands on, experiential sessions, students will:
- explore a wide range of accompanying styles
- explore harmonisation, bass lines and rhythmic devices and
- how to deploy these effectively
- explore strategies to improve accompaniment realisation
- learn effective ways to transpose at sight
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 70 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 18 | Feedback Weeks | 21 | |
| Feedback |
Practical exam consists of a live performance of accompanying from a pre-prepared accompaniment with singer/instrumentalist. Feedback given with written or audio notes on their recordings. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Create | To demonstrate a range of accompaniment styles through pre-recorded and live performance. |
| Conceptual | Create | To synthesise key elements of musicianship and apply them to a range of accompaniment styles. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 13 | Feedback Weeks | 16 | |
| Feedback |
Portfolio assessment consists of video and audio recorded pre-prepared accompaniments with options in: - genre - accompanying another musician or accompaniment only Feedback is given with written or audio notes on their recordings. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Create | To synthesise key elements of musicianship and apply them to a range of accompaniment styles. |
| Conceptual | Create | To demonstrate a range of accompaniment styles through pre-recorded and live performance. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Practical exam consists of a live performance of accompanying from a pre-prepared accompaniment with singer/instrumentalist. Feedback given with written or audio notes on their recordings. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Create | To synthesise key elements of musicianship and apply them to a range of accompaniment styles. |
| Conceptual | Create | To demonstrate a range of accompaniment styles through pre-recorded and live performance. |
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