Unit name | Extended Study: Composition Portfolio |
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Unit code | MUSI30059 |
Credit points | 40 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Pickard |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Music |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will begin with weekly seminars on contemporary music, each one highlighting an issue for creative response in the form of a weekly exercise or compositional miniature on specified topics. Later in the semester, this will be replaced by the composition of more extended movements for student ensembles as agreed with the unit director. In the second semester, students will be required to compose one or two additional pieces by agreement with the unit director, providing an opportunity for fuller development of the composer's interests, through more extended structures of a dramatic or symphonic nature.
Aims:
This unit aims to immerse student composers in a broad range of recent stylistic developments through detailed technical and analytical study of models; application of specified techniques in exercises, workshop compositions and more extended pieces potentially for public performance; and self-critical reflection and constructive comment on the work of peers (in the small group tutorials).
Successful completion of this unit will enable students to:
Seminars ((2 hours per week at the beginning of the unit), workshops, individual and small group tutorials.
1.5 hours per week participation in department research seminar
One hour per week of attending concerts within the department's concert series
2 hours per week of participation in group workshops and masterclasses within the Music Futures programme.
(a) three prescribed miniatures addressing specific musical problems (Weighting: 15%) Successful attainment of outcome (3) will enable the student to demonstrate (1-2)
(b) a commissioned work for agreed ensemble, (Weighting: 35%). Successful attainment of outcome (4) will enable the student to demonstrate (6)
(c) approved original composition(s) Successful attainment of outcome (4) will enable the student to demonstrate (7) (Weighting: 50%). the whole making a varied portfolio of c.20 mins. duration . A successful portfolio will also embody (5).
Attention will be drawn during the unit to significant works that have shaped contemporary musical styles and aesthetics, and to works that may serve as models for the mediums being addressed; additionally, concerts, broadcasts and recordings will be recommended.