| Unit name | Contemporary Compositional Ideas and Techniques |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MUSIM0006 |
| Credit points | 40 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Pickard |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Music |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit is intended to build awareness of the musical questions, issues, concepts, techniques, contexts, notation and more, that have driven and been explored by composers through the 20th Century and leading especially to the present day. We will avoid any claim of a single linear narrative: multiplicity is a feature of our time. We will also avoid general claims of one approach being "better" than another, though the repertoire we will study belongs in the now-broad spectrum of Western "art music". You will make work responding to a series of themes, studied in relation to multiple examples by other composers.
