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This course is designed to enable students to pursue guided individual work, culminating in a substantial piece (or pieces), with an emphasis on emerging personal stylistic identity.

15 x 1hr lectures; 5 x 2hr lectures (eg instrumental demos, extended lectures)

10 x 1hr seminars;

5 hours attendance at prescribed ensemble workshops

40 mins of 1-1 surgery time (2x20min meetings) with staff

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into Music, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation. Grade D3 or above in MUSIC4069

MUSIC4067

None

Composition for prescribed ensemble (6-8 mins) - 30%

Composition assignment 2 (15-20 minutes) - 70% 

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

This course aims to:

■ provide an in-depth understanding of the students' own personalised approaches to creating musical compositions;

■ enable students to apply specialised critical awareness in the practice of free composition

■ enable students to synthesize a host of musicianship skills, including aesthetic awareness and critical listening, in the pursuit of a portfolio of notated compositions

■ develop students' abilities to exploit their own set of practical tools in composition;

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ synthesise a wide array of technical means and musical perspectives to create music compositions;

■ apply in-depth aesthetic judgement in the pursuit of an emerging personal stylistic identity in composing;

■ develop routine personalised skills in the refinement of an effective compositional practice;

■ effectively negotiate a broad range of specialised concerns in composition such as harmony, melodic structure, form, notation, texture and timbre;

■ design compositions with an emerging affinity for the sonic and gestural capabilities of the chosen media.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.