Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

• Unit Title

  Acting and Performance Skills 6

• Unit Code

  MUS3713

• Year

  2020

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  Ms Emma MATTHEWS

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Description

This unit continues to develop students performance skills. Acting, text and stagecraft skills acquired in class are consolidated through a range of vocal productions including oratorio, opera and workshop productions. Also addressed are rehearsal and performance procedures, and audition and recital techniques.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 5 units from MUS1705, MUS1708, MUS2705, MUS2709, MUS3705

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse and effectively deliver texts of moderate difficulty, and demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between music and text.
2. Demonstrate an awareness of rehearsal and performance etiquette.
3. Demonstrate audition and recital techniques.
4. Demonstrate intermediate acting skills.
5. Demonstrate movement and physical characterisation skills.
6. Perform a physical warm-up to an appropriate level.
7. Rehearse and perform in vocal productions.

Unit Content

1. Acting method for singers.
2. Audition and recital techniques.
3. Movement and physicality.
4. Physical warm-ups of moderate difficulty.
5. Rehearsal and performance etiquette.
6. Rehearsals and performances of vocal productions.
7. Text and score analysis, interpretation and delivery techniques.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Weekly classes and rehearsals as per the production schedule.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

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