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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:

  • Zoom lessons with prepared teaching materials

  • 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

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