MUSA222-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019

Notated Composition 2B

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 26 July 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 September 2019

Description

This course builds on MUSA 221 to further develop the skills of creating and notating contemporary art music for live performance.

MUSA222 aims to further develop and broaden the skills acquired in MUSA221, of creating and notating contemporary arts music for live performance (vocal and instrumental), to assist in the development of more sophisticated knowledge of compositional techniques and procedures, and verbal articulation skills regarding compositional goals, compositional philosophy and methods and approaches to music notation.  Students will compile a portfolio of works together with associated drafts, documentation, reflective commentary and philosophical statement.  They will also gain an analytical understanding of contrasting works from the contemporary notated composition repertoire.

Learning Outcomes

  • Skills and knowledge in the creation of a portfolio of original notated instrumental and vocal works;
  • Skills in analysis of contemporary notated music;
  • Commentary on the portfolio and an articulation of personal composition philosophy;
  • Discipline of writing to fulfil the brief and on-time delivery;
  • Skill development in goal-setting and planning;
  • Analytical understanding of the student's own work in relation to the established canon of repertoire;
  • Skills development in instrumental combinations.

    Transferable skills:
    The ability to work in a disciplined and persistent way on an individual project;
    Peer review skills;
    The ability to criticise one’s own work.

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

MUSI 227

Timetable Note

WORKLOAD
• 12 hours attending lectures
• 18 hours attending composition workshops
• 9 hours attending small group tutorials
• 16 hours completing analytical exercises
• 5 hours completing workshop diary
• 90 hours drafting and writing (and possibly recording or realising) portfolio content


It is expected that all students enrolled in this course will attend all the Composition workshops.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

James Gardner

Lecturers

Reuben de Lautour and Hamish Oliver

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Composition no 1 Draft 09 Aug 2019 10%
Analysis Assignment 13 Sep 2019 20%
Workshop Diary 18 Oct 2019 10%
Portfolio 18 Oct 2019 60%


In addition to the assessment in this course you will be required to present at least one piece in the Composition Workshop.  This is compulsory and required to pass the course.

PORTFOLIO AND ANALYSES

Your portfolio should contain at least three compositions.  One must be predominantly pitch-based and use a pitch system (melodic/harmonic/intervallic) of your own devising.  One must be predominantly "sound-based" where timbre and gesture are specified in detail.  The remaining composition(s) are entirely free.

In addition to the assessment in this course you must present at least one work in the Composition Workshop.  This is compulsory and required to pass the course.
All assessments are due by 12pm on the specified date, and should be submitted through the LEARN system. Late work will be accepted up to one week after the deadline with a 10% penalty.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $850.00

International fee $3,775.00

* 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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