This course will further develop the students understanding of Historically Inspired Performance and broaden their understanding of the current state of research and practice in HIP.  Students will review selected key literature and primary sources including period tutors and instructional methods.  Further repertoire will be introduced highlighting the breadth of HIP styles and their application. Students will be encouraged to mediate (through performance) in a richly contextualised way between an historic past documented in the musical score of a work and its correlative aesthetic present.  The course will enable students to reassess both received and personal interpretative responses to repertoire of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods.

A demonstrable knowledge of the developments in Historically Inspired Performance that led to the current state of the practice; the ability to listen in a critical and discriminatory fashion to live and recorded performances and to be able to apply these learnt practices to their own performances.

Attendance required at 85% of classes for successful completion.

Submission of critical review and analysis diary (40%)

Participation in HIP workshop (10%)

A 2000 word essay on a topic related to HIP OR a lecture recital including the complete performance of a selected work of 3 - 5 minutes duration. (50%)

This course will consist of three components:

1. A series of weekly one hour lectures;
2. Attendance at a weekly HIP critical listening seminar of one hour;
3. Attendance at four scheduled HIP workshops of 2 hours duration.

Prerequisite: 'Strike up the Band' - Historically Inspired Performance 1