Module MUSI3312: Composition 3: Portfolio (double)

Department: Music

MUSI3312: Composition 3: Portfolio (double)

Tied To

• LA01: Liberal Arts
• LA02: Liberal Arts (with Year Abroad)
• LA03: Liberal Arts (with Placement Year)
• LMV0: Combined Honours in Social Sciences
• LMVA: Combined Honours in Social Sciences (with Year Abroad)
• LMVP: Combined Honours in Social Sciences (with Placement Year)
• W300: Music
• W302: Music (with Year Abroad)
• W303: Music with Placement Year
• W3V5: Music and Philosophy (with Year Abroad)
• W3V6: Music and Philosophy with Placement Year
• WV53: Music and Philosophy

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To provide an opportunity for students to express their creativity at an advanced level, through the production of a suitably differentiated folio of musical compositions, using compositional techniques to facilitate a competent and individual compositional voice, capable of demonstrating versatility in terms of musical expression and context.
• In so doing they will need to demonstrate that they are receptive to the work of other creative artists and yet have the confidence and authority to develop their own ideas within the chosen medium, whether acoustic (vocal and/or instrumental) and/or electroacoustic.

Content

• The production of a composition portfolio employing the techniques of instrumental and/or electroacoustic compositions that may include or consist wholly of electroacoustic compositions.
• The format and content of the portfolio is agreed with the module tutor, subject to the approval of the module director.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will become familiar with a range of compositional techniques that are available for the creation of new music, and be able to demonstrate how these may be used creatively and effectively to establish a distinctive compositional repertory of their own.

• In so doing they will acquire the skills necessary to compose with maturity, authority and originality.
• They will prepare the ground for compositional studies at a more advanced level and also via workshops and/or other presentational environments both formal and informal, engage directly the practicalities of creative communication via the medium of music composition.
• These experiences will build directly on the aesthetic considerations and compositional techniques they have encountered in their studies at Levels 1 and 2.

• Compositional techniques used in an appropriate way to articulate each student's musical ideas.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Tutorials enable the students to express their own creativity and develop their own compositional voice in response to a range of ideas associated with the development of new music. Twelve 30-minute tutorials will be offered, eleven across Michaelmas and Epiphany terms, and one in Easter term.
• Through tutorials students acquire additional skills to those obtained at lower levels of study and learn how to articulate their musical ideas clearly and authoritatively, preparing score and parts and/or electroacoustic materials to a professional standard.
• Two 30-minute slots to workshop a piece will be offered to acoustic/combined composers within one Epiphany and one Easter term workshop with visiting musicians
• These experiences will facilitate suitably critical, reflective and research aware appraisals of what has been achieved and provide important guidance as to how such creative outputs may be improved both technically and musically, and how different approaches may be used to extend the nature and scope of their musical language.
• Composition Portfolio - Portfolio of Compositions (15-18 minutes) with accompanying 1800 word critical commentary. The portfolio of works will be acoustic and/or electroacoustic based on the student's path of composition study.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Tutorials where work on the composition portfolio is assessed and discussed. Individual comments on materials (text, notation, audio, structure etc.) submitted by students for tutorial sessions.