Handmade Music: Composition, Performance, and Communities

Catalog description

A course for students interested in composition and performance, Handmade Music is a practice-oriented composition course in which students will make music created to be performed by themselves and other members of the class, in compositions ranging from solo to small ensemble pieces. The course will culminate in the presentation of a selection of these compositions in a concert produced by the members of the class. Students will explore composition and performance as two manifestations of creation that meet in the same person or group, developing a historical and practical understanding of artists as part of their communities, and recognizing the way in which their environments shaped their practices. No previous musical training is required. (MUSIC-MT)