Bachelor of Music
Culture and Arts - Music
Purpose and Rationale
Bachelor of Music
Purpose
The Bachelor of Music program aims to produce professional musicians with the necessary skills, knowledge, and critical thinking abilities to excel in various music-related roles. The program offers specializations in Performing Arts, Music Technology, and General studies, providing learners with a comprehensive understanding of music education, performance practices, and digital audio tools. Upon completion, learners will be equipped to apply research methods, solve complex problems, analyze data, engage with music research and literature, and effectively communicate their findings. The program is designed to promote transformation within the music sector by developing learners' knowledge and expertise in their chosen specialization.
Rationale
Music plays a vital role in uplifting and inspiring individuals, especially in challenging social contexts. It serves as a universal language that transcends cultural barriers and fosters social connections. The Bachelor of Music program not only enhances learners' musical skills but also promotes the numerous benefits of music education, such as improving cognitive abilities, social skills, and self-esteem. By training music graduates, the program contributes to creating a better world and addressing societal challenges. Additionally, the program aligns with the creative economy's significant contribution to South Africa's GDP and job creation, providing qualified graduates who can contribute to the cultural and creative industries. Overall, the Bachelor of Music degree benefits society by producing skilled professionals who can enrich the musical landscape and contribute to the creative economy.
Outcomes
- Deliver a successful, professional-standard concert performance demonstrating mastery of diverse styles of music.
- Examine performance practices at the forefront of music, and apply the diverse theories, methodologies of practice and techniques appropriate to a variety of performance contexts.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the theories, research methodologies, methods, and techniques relevant to the music field and an understanding of how to apply such knowledge in a particular context.
- Demonstrate the ability to review, collect information, synthesize data, evaluate, and apply relevant processes to given contexts to develop creative responses to problems and issues, offering creative insights, rigorous interpretations and solutions to problems and issues, and evidence of ethical scholarly practice.
- Utilise a range of relevant specialised skills to identify, analyse and address complex or abstract problems, or acts of musical creativity, drawing systematically on the bodies of knowledge and methods appropriate to the various specialisation areas offered in the qualification.
- Creatively use compositional technique and/or technology and give a coherent account of resources employed.
- Present and communicate academic and/or professional work effectively, catering for a variety of audiences by using a range of different media appropriate to the context.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Perform a music-aesthetical interpretation and communication effectively.
- Participate in group contexts such as ensemble, orchestral, and choral music performance.
- Stage a positive presence and adhere to professional concert etiquette.
- Interrogate and evaluate diverse theories and methodologies in musical performance.
- Identify and address complex problems in pedagogical and performance practice creatively.
- Construct cogent arguments using language effectively.
- Apply correct reference technique and bibliography.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Interrogate and evaluate knowledge within performance practice and its history.
- Identify and address complex problems in performance practice.
- Offer creative responses to performance practice challenges.
- Construct cogent arguments.
- Apply correct reference technique and bibliography.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Communicate knowledge within performance practice and its history effectively.
- Identify and address complex problems in performance practice.
- Offer creative responses to performance practice challenges.
- Construct well-cogent arguments within scholarly practice.
- Apply correct reference technique and bibliography.
- Discuss relevant pedagogical approaches in performance practice and apply them critically in music.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Use library and search engines for relevant information.
- Identify and contrast scholarly positions, theories, and ideologies.
- Analyse and address complex problems in the field.
- Construct creative responses and cogent arguments within the African context.
- Use solid academic writing and correct reference technique.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5 - Music Theory and Analysis:
- Create pleasing musical effects.
- Apply contrapuntal techniques and analyze fugal structures accurately.
- Analyse structural features typical of musical Impressionism.
- Identify and analyse 12-tone formulae and set theory applications.
- Offer accounts of harmonic devices.
- Develop aural skills and interpret melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic material.
- Correctly identify and utilize elements of various jazz styles.
- Engage in music education research and apply theories to practice.
- Conduct literature reviews and develop creative responses to educational problems.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6 - Composition and Jazz Theory:
- Compose original musical works.
- Employ coherence and musical development effectively.
- Produce notated musical scores that communicate intent.
- Identify defining elements of jazz styles.
- Create jazz compositions and arrangements.
- Utilize music technology for composition and analysis.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:
- Demonstrate communication skills in personal, social, and professional roles.
- Apply ethical practices in the music profession.
- Organize and communicate ideas effectively in various formats.
Integrated Assessment:
- Integrate concepts, ideas, and actions across exit level outcomes.
- Demonstrate competence through a holistic research proposal.
- Provide formative, summative, and integrated assessment opportunities.
Qualification Details
- Type
- National First Degree(Min 480)
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 480
- SAQA Source
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