Composition techniques: advanced

- understand fundamental principles of rhythm and line
- apply these principles in exercises to practise a variety of methods of temporal organisation (regular / irregular metred rhythm, ametrical rhythm) and pitch organisation (tonal, modal, atonal)
- understand the effect of different types of temporal and pitch organisation
- make informed aesthetic choices about temporal and pitch organisation in your own composition.

Manuscript paper, pencil and eraser. Other musical materials will be supplied by the tutor.
You may need to bring your instrument to class to play the exercises and compositions.

- group discussion and feedback
- guided analytical listening, score study, discussion and playing/singing of examples
- class and individual exercises in writing using the techniques studied
- playing / singing of exercises
- playing through and critiquing student exercises and compositions
- presenting your compositions/exercises to the group in performance or via recording/Sibelius files etc….