MUSA122-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Notated Composition 1B

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2014

Description

This course aims to further develop students' skills in creating and notating contemporary art music for live performance (vocal and instrumental), knowledge of compositional techniques and procedures, and verbal articulation skills regarding compositional goals and methods.

Students will attend lectures and composition workshops, and small-group tutorials.

Learning Outcomes

Students who pass this course will have
*  further developed knowledge and understanding of composition procedures in notated exercises and works;
*  developed analysis and commentary skills relating to contemporary practice;
*  further developed skills in the articulation of personal composition goals, and writing programme notes for their own work;
*  developed composition style and procedure knowledge derived from analysis of works from contemporary notated composition repertoire;
*  refined self-reflective skills regarding the creative process and the development of each work.

Prerequisites

MUSA121 and either MUSA100 or equivalent preparation approved by the Head of School.

Restrictions

MUSI 127

Timetable Note

Student workload (150 hours) will be allocated to:
*  12 hours attending lectures
*  18 hours attending composition workshops
*  9 hours attending small group tutorials
*  31 hours complete analytical exercises
*  80 hours drafting and writing portfolio content

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Christopher Cree Brown

Lecturers

Alex van den Broek and Iain Brandram-Adams

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Pitch class/Scales composition assignment 20 Aug 2014 35%
Aspects of New Notation assignment 26 Sep 2014 35%
Polytonality assignment 24 Oct 2014 30%


In addition to the three assignments listed below, each student must make a presentation at the composers workshops in order to pass the course.

1.  Pitch class / Scales composition assignment
    Weighting:  35%
    Date set:  6 August 2014
    Date due:  20 August 2014

2.  Aspects of New Notation assignment
    Weighting:  35%
    Date set:  20 August 2014
    Date due:  26 September 2014

3.  Polytonality assignment
    Weighting:  30%
    Date set:  8 October 2014
    Date due:  24 October 2014
    Preliminary Portfolio

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 should be submitted typed, using standard word-processor software.  The School of Music has iMacs you are able to use which have all standard software required for this course.

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/

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.

A pass is 50 marks and over.

Please see the School of Music handbook for information regarding the following:  late submission of work, aegrotats, plagiarism and dishonest practices, appeals, and reconsiderations.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $748.00

International fee $3,388.00

* 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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