Study Levels: Undergraduate
Faculty: Dr. Christina Guillaumier & Dr. Ingrid Pearson
Royal College of Music
Music and Words
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course builds on students’ skills as a communicator about music through both writing and speaking. Students will explore different styles of communicating about music, analyse examples from other practitioners, and draw on their own music-making to inform their responses.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this course students will be able to:
- communicate about music confidently and persuasively through the spoken and written word across various genres;
- refine different approaches and skills which are pertinent to musical practitioners; develop creative approaches to both the processes and products of writing and speaking;
- explore creative writing as a means of self-expression;
- critique and analyse the writings of others