Courses

Music composition is the art of organizing sounds in time and space. Every musician has the capacity to compose. The goals of this course are: to nurture your compositional creativity and craft; to refine your ability to express compositional ideas through notation and other media; to broaden your exposure to contemporary music and compositional techniques; to improve your aural and music analysis skills, focusing in particular on the perception of events and processes at work in contemporary music; to give you models for and experiential knowledge of a range of compositional processes and workflows; to develop your ability to write effectively for individual instruments and voices, as well as groups of instruments and voices; to improve your ability to write and speak articulately about your music; and to deepen your understanding of yourself as an artist. Prerequisite: MUS 141.