Composition for Media III

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Music Creation for Gaming- Composition for Media 3 focuses on applying composition to scoring for games. Students will study the aesthetic relationship between gaming and music creation, including: A general understanding about how video games are coded, Analysis and discussion about how scoring works in a video game, Understand game structures and mechanisms, especially as related to music deployment in video games, Discussion and development of a compositional process related to composing for games, Familiarity with different types of game development audio software, Composition of music using common interactive methods employed in video games, including looping, branching, layering, and transitions.