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School of Music · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course addresses skills required to compose music for: guitar solo or for guitar plus one (ww or string), and either string quartet or small mixed ensemble (four to five instruments). Students will also create an acoustic sonic art piece/ installation that articulates a proposed concept. It is encouraged (although not compulsory) for this to be in a collaborative setting. (Collaboration with students of visual arts or community groups is encouraged, and opportunities will be provided). Related to these creative tasks students will be guided in analysis of pieces that employ a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century compositional techniques in a range of genres and styles. Also, relating to the sonic art work students will be guided in analysis of works that incorporate a concept and the articulation of the concept through the structural and expressive properties of the work.
1 group tutorial oral presentation — 10 minutes
Learning outcomes 2
1 Analysis 1000 words, maximum 1 movement
Learning outcomes 1, 2
Portfolio of 3 works totalling 12 minutes in duration (20% each)
Learning outcomes 1, 3
Exegesis on a work selected from portfolio (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 3, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of lectures and 12 hours of workshop and workshop-like activities; and, b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing. Work Integrated Learning Simulation/Virtual This course gives students real world experience composing a new work for live ensemble, organising a performance in a professional venue. Students gain experience necessary to prepare them for careers as free-lance composers.
N/A minor amendments Preliminary Reading Repertoire list and orchestration texts.