Music
Advanced Composition Portfolio
Module code: W3067
Level 6
30 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Seminar
Assessment modes: Coursework
This module develops advanced practices in composition through a portfolio that reflects your own creative interests. Through a range of case studies from early music to contemporary music, including ensemble music, jazz, improvisation and orchestral music, the seminars focus on practical and aesthetic issues and are geared towards assessed projects as well as helping lay the foundations for larger-scale work.
The seminars provide you with peer and tutor feedback, as well as guidance on your assessed projects. In our sessions we'll look at case studies to encourage a range of musical perspectives. We'll engage in practicals where you'll use the resources you have to compose (software, hardware, instruments, notation). The module encourages you to research and by the end of the module you'll have shared a short introduction to a piece of music or a genre (in any style) that is particularly important to you and influential on your own creative work.
Module learning outcomes
- Demonstrate advanced composition and arrangement skills (e.g. structural organisation, creative use of orchestration, fluency in rhythmic and harmonic thinking, the ability to manage large scale structures).
- Demonstrate a coherent and original voice through practical composition and arrangement work.
- Analyse and critically evaluate texts (e.g. musical scores).
- Reflect critically on their own and others' creative production.