Overview
FD Popular
Music Performance offers a broad and challenging education in music performance,
creativity and entrepreneurship. You will be trained in live performance
practice, develop your individual talent, study in the recording studio both as
producer and session player, write and arrange music and participate in projects
that gets your music to a wider audience. You will develop research
skills, apply theory to practice and embrace the working practices of the music
industry as you embark on entrepreneurial projects that could lead to
employment. The FD Popular Music Performance is tailored to provide you with
opportunities to find your key creative strengths in the performance setting, in
music business, research or education, and then develop your chosen specialism
in order to progress into further study or employment.
The FD Popular
Music Performance offers opportunities for developing skills in solo and
ensemble performance, writing and arrangement, studio recording, social
networking and promotion as you create a portfolio of creative music projects
throughout the programme. You will
also study and experience performance in a range of historical popular music
styles, performance with multimedia technology, radio broadcasting and collaborative studio projects with
producers. The FD Popular Music
Performance offers training in all these areas, and you will be expected to
develop as an individual practitioner to explore the requirements of the
industry as you develop your specialist knowledge.
Modules
Level
4
·
Skills and Context (20 credits)
·
Live Band Studies (20 credits)
·
Creative Song writing (20 credits)
·
Research (20 credits)
·
Solo Performance Techniques (20 credits)
·
Studio Performance (20
credits)
Level
5
·
Journal and Seminar (20
credits)
·
Technology in Performance (20 credits)
·
Popular Music Arranging (20 credits)
·
Entrepreneurship (20 credits)
·
Creative Music Portfolio (20 credits)
·
Performance Practice (20 credits)
UCAS Code: PMP1
Fees: £7500
Subject to
Validation
Progression
Upon completion of this
foundation degree students may wish to progress to the BA (Hons)Music (pathways)
(Top-up) or pursue a career in any of the following areas: performer, arranger,
producer, songwriter, teacher, A&R, promotion& booking, artist
management, production manager, marketing executive, radio work, music therapy
and copywriter.
Full Time Higher Education
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