Module Delivered in
| Short Title: | Performing Traditions |
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| Full Title: | Performing Traditions: Historical Performance Practice/ Irish Traditional Music |
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| Module Coordinator: | AIVEEN KEARNEY |
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| Description: | This module seeks to explore the issues relating to context-sensitive performance practice, and to foster an awareness, knowledge and understanding of Irish traditional music. |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
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| On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to | - Interpret notational conventions for appropriate performance practice
- Develop an awareness of historically-informed performance practice through active participation
- Critically evaluate appropriate material from the literature
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of Irish traditional instruments and forms
- Understand the validity of folk music studies
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| Pre-requisite learning |
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Module Recommendations
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is strongly recommended before enrolment in this module. You may enrol in this module if you have not acquired the recommended learning but you will have considerable difficulty in passing (i.e. achieving the learning outcomes of) the module. While the prior learning is expressed as named CIT module(s) it also allows for learning (in another module or modules) which is equivalent to the learning specified in the named module(s). | | No recommendations listed | Incompatible Modules
These are modules which have learning outcomes that are too similar to the learning outcomes of this module. You may not earn additional credit for the same learning and therefore you may not enrol in this module if you have successfully completed any modules in the incompatible list. | | No incompatible modules listed | Requirements
This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is mandatory before enrolment in this module is allowed. You may not enrol on this module if you have not acquired the learning specified in this section. | | No requirements listed | Co-requisites
| | No co-requisites listed listed |
Module Content & Assessment| Indicative Content |
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Historical performance practice A study of the development of the Early Music Movement, including an introduction to the concepts, principles and evolution of performance practice studies. An introduction to Irish traditional music. A survey of Irish traditional instruments; music - dance music and airs; regional styles of instrumental performance.
A study of the Irish song tradition, incorporating sean-nós singing and its influence on the song tradition in the English language, ensemble-playing in the Irish tradition Ensemble performance Workshop sessions in each of the above areas of musical performance
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| Assessment Breakdown | % |
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| Course Work | 100.0% | | End of Semester Formal Examination | 0% |
| Coursework Breakdown |
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| Type | Description | Outcome addressed | % of total | Assessment Date |
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| Essay | Aspects of Irish traditional music | 4,5 | 50.0 | Sem End | | Project | Reconstruct a performing edition | 1,2,3 | 25.0 | Sem End | | Project | To compose variations using diminutions taken from 17th century treatises | 1,2,3 | 25.0 | Week 8 |
| Reassessment Requirement |
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Coursework Only
This module is reassessed solely on the basis of re-submitted coursework. There is no repeat written examination. |
The institute reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment Module Workload & Resources| Workload | Full-time |
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| Type | Description | Hours | Frequency | Average Weekly Learner Workload |
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| Lecture | Historical Performance Practice | 1.0 | Every Week | 1.00 | | Lecture | An introduction to traditional Irish music | 1.0 | Every Week | 1.00 | | Tutorial | Traditional Performance | 1.0 | Every Second Week | 0.50 | | Tutorial | Early music performance | 1.0 | Every Second Week | 0.50 | | Independent & Directed Learning (Non-contact) | Study, practice | 4.0 | Every Week | 4.00 | | Total Weekly Learner Workload | 7.00 | | Total Weekly Contact Hours | 3.00 |
| Resources |
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| Recommended Book Resources |
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- Stanley Sadie; executive editor, John Tyrell 2001, New Grove Dictionary of Music, Macmillan London [ISBN: 0333608003]
- Thurstan Dart 1954, The Interpretation of Music, New York [ISBN: 11081601]
- Bernard D. Sherman 1997, Inside early music, Oxford [ISBN: 978-0-19-516945-4]
- John Butt 2002, Playing with history, Cambridge University Press Cambridge [ISBN: 978-0-521-8135205]
- Harry Haskell 1996, The early music revival, Dover Publications Mineola, N.Y. [ISBN: 0-486-29162-6]
- Ross W. Duffin,, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony: [ISBN: 978-0-393-33420-3]
- edited by Jeffery Kite-Powell 2007, A performer's guide to Renaissance music, Indiana University Press Bloomington [ISBN: 978-0-253-34866-1]
- by Walter Emery 1981, Bach's ornaments, Novello Borough Green [ISBN: 0-85360 017 1]
- by F. T. Arnold; with an introduction by Denis Stevens 2003, The art of accompaniment from a thorough-bass, Dover Mineola, N.Y. [ISBN: 0-486-43188-6]
- Howard Ferguson 1975, Keyboard interpretation from the 14th to the 19th century, Oxford University Press New York [ISBN: 0-19-318419-2]
| | Supplementary Book Resources |
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- Breandán Breathnach 1971, Folk Music and Dances of Ireland, Mercier Cork
- Matt Cranitch 1993, The Irish Fiddle Book, 2nd ed Ed., Mercier Cork
- Aloys Fleischman 1998, Sources of Irish Traditional Music, Garland New York
- Finnegan 1992, Oral Tradition and the Verbal Arts, Routledge London
- Colin Hamilton 1990, The Irish Flute Player's Handbook, Breac publications Cork
- Terry Moylan 1994, Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra - Dance Music from the Cork-Kerry Border, Lilliput Dublin
- Tomás O'Canainn 1993, Traditional Music in Ireland, Ossian Cork
- Fintan Vallely ed 1999, The Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Cork University Press Cork
- O'Neill 1987, Irish Minstrels and Musicians, Mercier Cork
- Seán Ó'Riada 1982, Our Musical Heritage, Fundúireacht an Riadaigh, Dolmen
- Rouget 1985, Music and Trance, University of Chicago Press Chicago
| | Other Resources |
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- Folk Music Collection: O'Neill 1907, The Dance Music of Ireland, Walton, Dublin
- Folk Music Collection: Breandán BreathnachCeol Rince an h-Éireann Vols 1,2,3, Irish Government Publications, Dublin
- Folk Music Collection: Tomás Ó'Canainn 1995, Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland, Ossian, Cork
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