Performance Major

Total units 48 Units

Major code PERF-MAJ

Academic career Undergraduate

Most BMus students will take a major or minor in Performance. These courses allow students to refine their skills in the understanding, interpretation and execution of solo and ensemble performance. Students may elect to specialise in a particular genre - classical, jazz, contemporary or folk and world musics - or combine genres. In addition to classes, masterclasses, rehearsals and workshops at the ANU School of Music, Performance students have access to weekly individual instrumental lessons with a teacher (or equivalent summer schools or intensive external tuition). Access to Performance courses is by audition.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Understand a wide range of compositional, arranging and sound design issues in aesthetic and technical terms;
Analyse a diverse range of music using a number of relevant theories and methods;
Create and present compositions, arrangements, and/or sound designs of a highly proficient standard utilising appropriate notation, instrumentation, orchestration, and/or recording techniques, in one or more styles and at least two genres; and
Communicate clearly the creative decisions made in the course of composing, arranging and sound design and how these relate to relevant historical traditions or precedents.

Relevant Degrees

Bachelor of Music (BMUSI)

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

36 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
MUSI1101	Music Performance 1	6
MUSI1102	Music Performance 2	6
MUSI2201	Music Performance 3	6
MUSI2202	Music Performance 4	6
MUSI3301	Music Performance 5	6
MUSI3302	Music Performance 6	6

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
ANIP3003	Australian National Internships Program Internship A	6
MUSI2205	Music Project	6
MUSI2209	Music Recording and Production Techniques	6
MUSI2221	Music Ensemble Extension	6
MUSI3309	Music and Digital Media	6

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