Music 2C: Introduction to Compositional Techniques (U03356)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 8 ? Acronym : ACE-2-Music2C

This course will offer students experience in inventing, in creative approaches to composition and in imitating a number of historical styles of composition. Students taking this course will attend weekly hour-long seminars and tutorials in both semesters. The seminars will be run jointly with those in Inventing 1 and Style Studies 1.

? Keywords : music creative inventing composition harmony counterpoint

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Music 1C: Musical Literacy, where a Higher or A-level in Music is not already held, or equivalent.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Music, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 2nd year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 16 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	11:10	12:00	Lecture Room A 2.04, Alison House	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	11:10	12:00	Central
Lecture	Friday	11:10	12:00	Central

? Additional Class Information : Semester 1: Friday seminars and additional tutorials in Weeks 2 to 5 and 7 to 10.
Semester 2: Thursday seminars and additional tutorials in Weeks 2 to 5 and 7 to 10.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course students will have learned the basic skills of composition. They will have been encouraged to compose both creatively and in the style of historical composers such as Bach and Haydn. They will have acquired the music literacy necessary to express their creative and stylistic ideas.