Course: Composition 1

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Course title Composition 1
Course code KMU/ECOM1
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Keprt Marek, doc. MgA. Ph.D.
Course content
Stylistic exercises: Exposition of a fugue, variations in classical style, various arts of piano-texture, ability to work out piano reduction of scores, instrumentation of piano texture (classical, romantic, impressionistic), one-voice composition for a wind or string instrument, pattern-method, minimal music methods, microinterval composition, composition for prepared piano.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Attendace - 9 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 11 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Basic methods of composition
The student gets a survey of methods of composition work and thinking.
Prerequisites
Good orientation in the problems of harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)

The student works out the given stylistic exercies and compositions of his own.
Recommended literature
  • Arditti, Irvin, Platz, Robert. The Techniques of VIolin Playing/Die Speltechnik der Violine. 2013.
  • Belkin, Alan. (2018). Musical Composition. Craft and Art..
  • Dierstein, Christina, Roth, Michel, Ruland, Jens. Teh Techniques of Percussion Playing- Mallets, Implements and Applications. 2018.
  • Isherwood, Nicholas. The Techniques of Singing/Die Techniken des Gesangs. 2013.
  • Schonberg, Arnold. (1999). Fundamentals of Musical composition.


Study plans that include the course
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