Program for specialisation in composition

Composition major: 52 points total

Coordinator: Craig De Wilde

Students undertaking this specialisation can expect to acquire the experience and skills to develop a career as a composer. The program offers individual supervision of students' compositional projects and encourages work in various media, including traditional, electronic, and contemporary solo and ensemble combinations. Honours students will prepare a folio of compositions and arrange an annotated concert performance of their works. The department organises a number of large and small instrumental and ensemble choral groups and encourages performances of student compositions.

First year: 12 points

• MUS1100 Exploring music I (6 points)
• MUS1110 Exploring music II (6 points)

Second year: 16 points

• MUS2110 Analytical and compositional techniques I[>] (4 points)
• MUS2120 Analytical and compositional techniques II* (4 points)
• MUS2660 Music composition workshop* (4 points)
• MUS2661 Music composition workshop* (4 points)

• MUS3390 Music aesthetics, criticism, sociology and psychology* (8 points)
• MUS3310 Twentieth-century compositional techniques (including electronic techniques)* (8 points)
• MUS3660 Music composition workshop (4 points)
• MUS3670 Music composition workshop (4 points)
• MUS3480 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan (4 points)

[>] Compulsory subject.

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