| CODE | MSP2284 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Contemporary Composition in Practice | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Music Studies | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit is concerned with the students' development as composers. In taught elements (lectures, seminars) different approaches to composing will be explored through undertaking set tasks and through lectures on models of contemporary composition techniques and philosophies. This study-unit will also help students to increase their awareness of a range of techniques, styles, and strategies. Two seminars will project elements of free composition supported by tutorial supervision aimed to foster the development of a personal style. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims at developing: 1) the ability to think and work with originality and creative independence; 2) enhance proficiency in a variety of compositional techniques; 3) the ability to work with self-confidence with the tools and materials of contemporary composition; 4) the ability to work in a language and idiom with artistic relevance to contemporary art culture. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1) think and work with originality and creative independence; 2) further proficiency in a variety of compositional techniques; 3) work with self-confidence with the available tools and materials of contemporary composition; 4) compose in a language and idiom with artistic relevance to contemporary art culture. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1) possess aural/analytical skills; 2) employ compositional and technological skills in contemporary compositional practice; 3) demonstrate intellectual skills, including skills in research, critical thinking, reasoning, and synthesis; 4) display enhanced powers of imagination and creativity; 5) work and develop self-critical direction in free composition building that is characteristic of contemporary composition in practice. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts - Nyman, M. 2000. Experimental Music (Cambridge: CUP). - Stone, K. 1980. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century (New York: Norton). - Weisberg, A. 1996. Performing Twentieth Century Music: A Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists (Yale: Yale UP). - Whittall A. 1999. Musical Composition in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: OUP). Supplementary Texts - Ford, A. 1993. Composer to Composer: Conversations About Contemporary Music (London: Quartet Publications. - Griffiths P., 1995. Modern Music and After (Oxford: OUP). - Kennan, K. & Grantham, D. 1983. The Technique of Orchestration. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.1983. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-Requisite qualifications: A Level Music or Grade 7/8 Theory | ||||||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Seminar and Tutorial | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | John Galea |
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