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School of Music · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Foundations of Composition addresses a range of topics and skills used by composers. In this course students will develop techniques including how to generate musical ideas and how to structure and orchestrate them, regardless of their stylistic interests. Students will work with a variety of industry standard technologies including notation, recording, audio editing, spectral analysis, computer music, and other software packages. These skills and techniques will be critically examined and discussed in large and small group tutorial settings. Students apply these skills to one or more new original compositions utilising these techniques while developing their own unique compositional style.
Crit presentation and folio of exercises
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4
Major project
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Conference and reflection journal
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks consisting of lectures, tutorials, workshops, and other activities; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing. Work Integrated Learning Projects Students complete a final project which is based on a real-life composition commission brief, and must complete it by a deadline.
Orchestration and composition readings will be assigned via Wattle the week before they are to be discussed in class.