MUP 100S Applied Composition Lessons

Lecture Hours: 1
Credits: 1

Covers methods for exploring musical composition techniques and technologies, including the creative process, hand-written notation, computer notation, Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), music business, orchestration, score study, and analysis.

Repeatable: Students may repeat this course for a maximum of 9 credits.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Notate music by hand and with notation software.
Orchestrate compositions and arrangements for a variety of ensembles.
Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of compositional forms.
Demonstrate a familiarity of harmonic and rhythmic techniques.
Create and present music using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW).

Content Outline

Notation
- Hand-written
- Computer-Generated
Orchestration 
- Bowed Strings
- Brass
- Woodwinds
- Percussion
- Voices
- Various Vernacular/Non-Western Instruments
Composition Technique
- Form
  - Basic phrase structure
  - Five Primary Western Forms
    - Binary/Ternary
    - Rondo
    - Sonata
    - Variation
    - Concerto
  - Medieval European Form
    - Cantus Firmus
    - Isorhythm
    - Dance Form(s)
  - Non-Western Form
    - Colotomic
    - Raga
    - Polyrhythm
    - Heterophonic
- Harmonic Technique
  - Functional Tonality
  - Centric Tonality
  - Modality
  - Atonality
- Rhythm Technique
  - Rhythmic Cycle
  - Isorhythm
- Canonic Technique
  - Canon(s)
  - Fugue
- Other Techniques
  - Additive Process
  - Indeterminacy
  - Serialism
Technology
- D.A.W. (Digital Audio Workstation)
- Electronic Dissemination