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- Effective Term:
- Summer 2014 through Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- MUS 240C
- Course Title:
- Music Composition
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture Hours:
- 10
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 30
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion students should be able to:
- Utilize advanced contemporary music composition techniques to create advanced-level musical works.
- Compose advanced-level musical works using one’s continually developing musical language
- Foster the creative exchange of musical ideas through the use of advanced-level compositional skills.
Course Activities and Design
Score and part preparation and proofing.Completion of a work from conception to performance.Improvisation as means of generating of musical ideas.Analysis of masterworks in variety of genres and styles (esempii classici).Transcription and/or arranging of preexisting works.Balancing unity, variety and form.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Portfolio of professionally prepared original scores for a variety of instrumentalcombinations including voice(s).Reading sessions of original works by peers, faculty, and semi-professional orprofessional performers.One-on-one instructor/student conferences.Participation in written and oral peer review and evaluation.Written quantitative/qualitative examination.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Variation techniquesTonality, modality and atonalityIntervallic cell-based composition and serialism as alternative means ofmelodic/harmonic organizationBasic orchestration and idiomatic instrumental/vocal writingMelodic transformation and development techniquePolyphony – contrapuntal and imitative proceduresNon-tertian harmony and synthetic melodic materialsWriting for the voice - selecting and setting textIndeterminancy in performance and music compositionGraphic notation and scoresExtended instrumental and vocal technique