MUSI227-13W (C) Whole Year 2013

Composition 2

45 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 1 September 2013

Description

Developing students' abilities to express their own creative compositional ideas in the most effective manner.

This course is designed to develop students' abilities to initiate and realise their own compositional ideas in the most effective manner.
A year's schedule, detailing projected work, will be mutually discussed and agreed upon by the teacher and each individual student at the beginning of the year.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

MUSI225

Timetable Note

Students in this course are expected to attend all composition workshops (Rm 205, Monday 1-3 pm), and to have a least one work performed there.

Course Coordinator

Christopher Cree Brown

Lecturer

Iain Brandram-Adams

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Musical Parameters 21 Mar 2013 15%
Musical Developmenjt 02 May 2013 15%
Musical Language 30 May 2013 15%
Concert Reports 11 Oct 2013 5%
Portfolio 11 Oct 2013 50% Two compositions (each worth 25%) of different instrumentation, at least one of which shall be for an ensemble (minimum two performers). One of these pieces must be performed in the workshop or a concert.


The portfolio of works should consist of properly bound scores, recordings of the works in the folio and five concert reports.  Any visual aspects to the work should be documented via photographs and/or videotape.  Additional notes and/or short commentaries may be included.

Course links

Library portal

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.

Grade Descriptors  :  Factors taken into account:   i) Setting and achievement of objectives;   ii) Levels of competence and achievement in all areas (such as instrumentation rhythmic invention, musical language for composition, knowledge and use of computer software for Sonic Art);   iii) Development of work practice;   iv) Commitment to work and rate of work;   v) Current issues, theory and practices as evident in the work (listening to, and reading about new music);   vi) Levels of innovation;   vii) Levels of initiative;   viii) Critical skills as evident in the development of the work;   ix) Meeting course requirements

Late submission of work

All items of assessment must be submitted by the due date and time. In the case of illness or critical circumstance which might make it impossible for an item to be submitted in time, contact must be made with the Course Coordinator before the due date and application made for an extension of time. The application must explain the circumstances of the delay, and any extension will be at the discretion of the Course Coordinator.

Where to submit and collect work

All essay and assignment material must be firmly secured (stapled, or bound in a folder), and contain on the front page or cover the following information: Student name, Course number, Lecturer. Unless the class is instructed to the contrary, the assignment should be posted in the appropriate box at the School of Music counter by the due date.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $2,158.00

International fee $9,975.00

* 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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