MUM4310

Twentieth-century compositional techniques

Steve Adam and T Reiner

12 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Objectives By the end of the semester, students undertaking the unit should have a basic historical knowledge and analytical, compositional and/or performative experience of some of the major compositional techniques used in the twentieth century.

Synopsis Students are required to record, modify, sequence and sample sounds to produce edited pieces of electronic music in the electronic laboratory. They also study late twentieth-century atonal and serial techniques by means of composing, analysing and performing.

Assessment Written (2000 words): 20%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Five notations (4000 words equivalent): 40%

Prescribed texts

Dallin L Techniques of twentieth-century composition Brown, 1974