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

MUSIC4067

None

The standard assessments for this course are:

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

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

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:

■ There is no alternative to the composition for prescribed ensemble, but a flexible deadline and extra time can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)

■ There is no alternative to the composition assignment, but a flexible deadline and extra time can be offered as reasonable adjustments (students should follow the usual process for extensions)

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.

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.