The module will be taught in a variety of ways: in addition to lectures, there will be demonstrations, workshops, tutorials, and guided listening and reading. The aim is to stimulate the growth of composition and to use all available means to achieve it. Attendance at workshops and seminars run in conjunction with the Department's link with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and other professional ensembles is strongly encouraged as they form an integral and quality aspect of the course.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module students should be able to:
• Develop an awareness of issues in 20th and 21st-century composition;
• Develop sustained and concentrated thought in music and the skills required to articulate it;
• Produce compositions for a variety of acoustic resources using a range of compositional techniques;
Assessment
37495-01 : Portfolio : Log Book/ Portfolio (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions
100% portfolio, of a combined duration 8-10 minutes, covering techniques of rhythm, melody and sonority in twentieth- and twenty-first-century compositional idioms for a variety of performance forces.