CONTEMPORARY
MUSIC
COURSE CODE: #005 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (1-on-1)
About the Course
Who this course is for:
Students starting to learn Western contemporary music and compose for different combinations of instruments.
Aims of this course:
This course provides students with an opportunity to acquire various writing techniques in composition as applied in the repertoire from the Baroque to the present time. It helps students to equip contemporary techniques essential for the composition of various musical creativities in the 21st century idioms. This one-on-one lesson mode gives students to have a step-by-step and hands-on learning strategy to experience the art of contemporary music.
This course includes:
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Zoom lessons with prepared teaching materials
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Feedback on student homework in the class
Study mode:
One-on-one individual lesson
#005 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC (1-on-1)
Zoom lesson subject to mutual agreement
1) Pay every 4 lessons: £120
£30/lesson
Course
Contents
Syllabus:
I. Study of Contemporary Music
Overview of Western contemporary music
Use of scales, rhythms and tonalities in the 20th-century music
Impressionism and Extended harmonies
Set Theory
Serialism
Minimalism
Analysis of contemporary chamber works
Analysis of contemporary orchestral works
II. Composition
Pre-compositional plan
Motivic development
Form and Texture
Composing for solo instruments
Composing for voices
Composing for chamber music
Composing for orchestra
Orchestration & Piano reduction