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Music Skills

This project was designed to revitalize and redefine approaches to learning the collection of practical, technical and theoretical music skills that enable a student to engage with a wide range of musics at a fundamental level. For example, the skills of aural perception, harmony and counterpoint, score-reading and writing, and so on within the musics of common practice, folk and traditional, popular, vernacular and post-vernacular.

Most notably the project produced a research document on ‘The provision in ‘Music Skills’ for degree students on Popular Music Programmes across selected North Eastern and National Institutions’ (Fleet, 2008) available at (Please click here); organized a symposium ‘Music Skills in Higher Education: Re-Thinking Pedagogy and Practice’ (2009) which was attended by representatives from many FE and HE institutions; produced new courses and suggested new modes of delivery for music skills packages; and it equipped a room within Newcastle University that is now dedicated to the teaching and exploration of music skills related courses.