MUS 3240Elements of Songwriting

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Prerequisite(s): None This course provides students with the basic aesthetic and communicative concepts of songwriting with regard to tradition and to contemporary trends and enables students to articulate a conscious method appropriate to their own aesthetic approaches to songwriting in the context of traditional songwriting. The course includes composing original songs with various features (lyrics, melody, harmony, etc.) and document them so that each song may be communicated and performed in various different genres, styles, and situations. Note: Crosslisted with ENG 3570