Making Music

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to a foundational level of knowledge of music composition by producing work across a wide variety of different genres, styles, media and aesthetic traditions. Departing from an approach that looks at different musical systems, the course will guide students through different ways of organizing musical discourse. The emphasis will be on the practical creation of music using different approaches including improvisation and electronics, besides the more traditional paper composition. Students will be actively encouraged to perform their work, and to present other performances, including planned and free improvisation, approaches to the interpretation of contemporary music, installation work, graphic scores and other non-standard notations, as appropriate.