MUSA221-19S1 (C) Semester One 2019

Notated Composition 2A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2019
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 1 March 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 10 May 2019

Description

This course aims to further develop the skills of creating and notating contemporary art music for live performance.

MUSA221 aims to further develop and broaden the skills acquired at 100 level, of creating and notating contemporary art 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

MUSA122, or
both MUSA120 and MUSA101.

Restrictions

MUSI 227

Timetable Note

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Workload
Student workload (150 hours) will be allocated to:
• 12 hours attending lectures
• 18 hours attending composition workshops
• 9 hours attending small group tutorials
• 21 hours completing analytical exercises
• 90 hours drafting and writing portfolio content

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

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Reuben de Lautour

Lecturer

James Gardner

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Analysis Assignment 1 10%
Composition no 1 draft 10%
Analysis Assignment 2 10%
Workshop Diary 20%
Portfolio 50%


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.

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 .

All MUSA221 Occurrences

  • MUSA221-19S1 (C) Semester One 2019
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