Creating & Performing Knowledge

Creating and Performing Knowledge is concerned with thinking critically about music; it is about how our thought becomes internalised and becomes part of our musicianship.

Creating and Performing Knowledge equips students with skills that facilitate the recognition and development of their individual musical instinct and intellect. Introducing elements of history, analysis, aesthetics, and performance practice as interdependent tools, Creating and Performing Knowledge acknowledges the close relationship between these (and other) subjects and the student’s Principal Study.

These relationships are expressed, not just through Principal Study, but also through a variety of media, encouraging students to gain confidence in communicating their musicianship to a diverse audience.

Across the first three years of the BMus course, Creating and Performing Knowledge guides the student to an increased individuality of study, culminating during Year 3 in a substantial piece of personal research that allows the student to explore aspects of their developing identities as artists.