KMB228 Musicianship 4

Unit Outline: Semester 2 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal

Overview

This unit assists you to develop an awareness of your own musicianship and where this is situated within the diversity of contemporary practices and contexts. It develops your awareness of analytical and synthesis skills across a broad range of music and sound contexts and concepts. It complements other creative, practical and analytical units by fostering a deeper understanding of music and sound. This advanced musicianship unit provides you with critical listening, analysis, representational and demonstrational skills across a broad range of music and sound. The unit will foster a deeper understanding of music and sound to help inform and situate your creative practice. You will build on these skills towards your final year capstone Music Creation units.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

1. Demonstrate and apply advanced critical listening skills to your composition, production and performance of musical works in a variety of styles, settings and practices.
2. Analyse, represent, synthesise and communicate advanced musical and sonic concepts, using literacies and conventions most appropriate to your creative practice.
3. Apply your understanding of music theory and organisational structures to musical works in a range of styles, settings and practices.

Content

Learning Approaches

This unit adopts a blended learning approach through a range of learning experiences including online and in-class lectures, workshops and seminars.

Using a combination of teacher-directed and student led activities students will discuss, critique and co-create music and sound materials from a wide range of sources.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Learning and assessment are supported by a range of weekly activities and tasks where you will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit. These activities and tasks are designed to help develop the skills and understanding you will need to successfully complete assessment items. In addition, feedback in this unit is provided as generic comments posted to the whole cohort via the unit Canvas website; as feedback from peers as you investigate, discuss and resolve issues raised throughout the unit; and comments included on criteria sheets with your grade.

Assessment

Overview

In this unit there are two main assessments. Throughout the unit you will be tested on your practical musicianship skills (40%). This will give you feedback on your developing capabilities as well as evaluating your achievement over time. In addition, you will be required to submit a folio of work representing your developing conceptual understanding of musicianship theory (60%).

Unit Grading Scheme

7- point scale

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Examination

Assessment of your aural analysis and evaluation skills and, demonstration of musicianship skills and knowledge in a range of contexts will occur over the semester (a maximum of 4).

Assessment: Portfolio

You are required to submit a folio of tasks that demonstrates your understanding of a range of concepts, practices and contexts through analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.

This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.

The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Resources

Risk Assessment Statement

All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction and Tier 2 KG Studios induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.

Excessive noise in confined spaces can damage hearing. Exposure to such noise should be brief and controlled.

Personal injury is possible from incorrectly lifting heavy electronic or acoustic instruments or equipment.

The physical demands of playing instruments may cause injuries such as repetitive strain injury. If in doubt consult a physician.

The use of electronic instruments and equipment may cause electrocution if handled incorrectly or an electrical fault occurs. Always ensure your equipment has been regularly tested by a qualified electrician.

Musical, electrical and computer equipment is prone to failure. Any loss of time for such failures should be accounted for in your planning.

Safety of data storage can never be fully guaranteed. You are required to take all steps necessary to ensure continuity of your data.

Course Learning Outcomes

KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts

1. Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
   Relates to: ULO3
2. Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO2
3. Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
   Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3
4. Represent and promote your work in ways relevant to your creative field.
   Relates to: ULO2
5. Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
   Relates to: ULO3