Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2025-2026
Module MUSI3762: Techniques Portfolio (double)
Department: Music
MUSI3762: Techniques Portfolio (double)
| Type | Tied | Level | 3 | Credits | 40 | Availability | Available in 2025/2026 | Module Cap | None. | Location | Durham |
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| Tied to | LA01 |
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| Tied to | LA02 |
| Tied to | LA03 |
| Tied to | W300 |
| Tied to | W302 |
| Tied to | W303 |
| Tied to | WV53 |
| Tied to | W3V5 |
| Tied to | W3V6 |
Prerequisites
- MUSI2601: Advanced Historical Composition Techniques.
Corequisites
- None.
Excluded Combination of Modules
- MUSI3751 Portfolio of Techniques (single).
Aims
- To provide an opportunity for students to express their creativity at advanced level through the production of a portfolio of pastiche compositions using a variety of techniques and styles from the 16th, 17th, 18th or19th centuries, or broadly 'tonal'styles from the early decades of the 20th century.
Content
- Guidance will be given in tutorials on the composition of larger-scale works, including, but not limited to fugue, chorale prelude, variations, sonata form movements, partsong, concert overture, symphonic movement, big band composition.
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge:
- Students will become familiar with a range of compositional techniques that are available for the creation of music, and will be able to demonstrate how these may be used imaginatively and effectively.
Subject-specific Skills:
- Students will acquire the skills necessary to compose with maturity, authority and originality, building on the aesthetic considerations and techniques they have encountered at Levels 1 and 2. A greater ambition is to be encouraged regarding the size and scope of composition at Level 3.
Key Skills:
- Compositional techniques used in an appropriate way to articulate each student's musical ideas and to demonstrate an identification with various established styles.
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- The module will be delivered through individual tutorials through which students will be assisted in the preparation of a portfolio of pastiche compositions.
- Portfolio of Compositions -lasting between 15 and 18 minutes in all (excluding exactly repeated sections such as sonata expositions), with an accompanying 1,500 word commentary
Teaching Methods and Learning Hours
| Activity | Number | Frequency | Duration | Total/Hours | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tutorials | 12 | Spread out through the year, mainly in Terms 1 and 2 | 30 minutes | 6 | ■ |
| Preparation and Reading | 394 | ||||
| Total | 400 |
Summative Assessment
| Component: Portfolio of Compositions | Component Weighting: 100% | ||
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| Element | Length / duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
| Composition | 15-18 minutes with an accompanying 1,500 word commentary | 100% | |
Formative Assessment:
Excerpts will be submitted on Blackboard through the first two terms and discussed at tutorials.
■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University