MUSA223-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

Orchestration, Arranging and Remixing 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

This course will assist students to develop skills in instrumentation and scoring for combinations of instruments, as well as expanding piano scores for small ensembles. It will also assist students to acquire skills in using virtual instruments, scoring for film, using a computer to arrange and remix existing work and Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs).

Learning Outcomes

Students who pass this course will have developed:
*  Knowledge of instruments, their ranges and capabilities;
*  Skills in orchestrating from piano score to small ensembles and combos;
*  Kills in using virtual instruments;
*  Rudimentary skills in film scoring;
*  Skills in remixing, managing timbre and texture;
*  Skills in transcribing and arranging musical material for small orchestras and various popular genres;
*  Skills in using a computer to remix or arrange existing work;
*  Skills in some uses of DAWs including software instruments and sample libraries.

Transferable Skills
*  Identifying and conceptualising and solving problems
*  Decision-making
*  Self-assessment
*  Goal-setting
*  Time-management and meeting deadlines
*  Design and construction skills
*  Verbal and written articulation skills

Prerequisites

MUSA125 and either MUSA120 or MUSA121

Restrictions

MUSI 224

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Hamish Oliver

Lecturer

Christopher Cree Brown

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Orchestration Tasks 50% Notated scores
Arranging Assessment 25% Realised with real or vitual instruments
Remixing practical task 25%

Notes

Use of Technology

This course assumes that you have sufficient information and technology skills to confidently use a computer to access material for your course.  Your written work will be handwritten and submitted in class time.

You will be required to access our learning management system – LEARN – and to become familiar with its tools.  LEARN provides easily-accessible information about the course and assessments, topics and deadlines, and supports the learning you will gain from attending all lectures and tutorials.  For help using LEARN, refer to: http://learn.canterbury.ac.nz/course/view.php?id=2157

Additional Course Outline Information

Assessment and grading system

The following shows how to translate grades to numerical scores:

A+  90–100;    A   85–89;    A-  80–84;    B+   75–79;    B 70–74;    B-   65–69;     C+  60–64;     C  55–59;     C- 50–54;     D  40–49;   E  0–39
In a course at 100- or 200-level examiners may grant restricted credit (R) which will be equivalent to a pass for all purposes except as a prerequisite.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $817.00

International fee $3,525.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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