HMU 310 Music Composition

HMU 310A Music Composition
Call #: Instructor: Brick A
11552 Credits: 3.00 - 3.00
Session: Normal Academic Term 08/25/2008-12/22/2008
Enrollment Cap: 00012 Available: 00008 Status: Open

DAY BEGINS ENDS BUILDING ROOM
TR 02:00PM 03:15PM Morton 101
This section is offered at: Hoboken Campus

Prerequisite(s):
HMU202 (formerly HMU302)


Course Objectives:

  • Course’s Objective: The Objective of Music Composition is to
     
    • Provide the student with a complete compositional skill set including a comprehensive analysis of form and structure. The course will be presented with a disposition towards neo-classicism that can be effectively implemented beyond the students academic tenure.
     
    • Introduce the essential elements of compositional techniques including but not limited to:
    1.      Motive, Phrase, and Period
    2.      Binary & Ternary Form
    3.      Full sonata form
    4.      Concerto, Ostinato, Variations & Suite

     

    • Present a formal analysis of compositional techniques that may be generally applied to tonal or atonal harmonic principals that include but are not limited to:
    1.      Diatonic & Chromatic mirror inversions.
    2.      Retrograde
    3.      Retrograde Inversion
    4.      Fugual and Cannonic imitation
    5.      Metrical Shifting and displacement
    6.      Altered Function of Foreground, Background and Middleground.
     

Textbooks:

Online Class Notes

Structure and Style: The Study and Analysis of Musical Forms (Paperback)
by Leon Stein (Author)

Anthology of Musical Forms (Paperback)


Click here for manuscript paper

NOTE: All homework and exams must be submitted as pdf and MP3 files ONLY to hmu310@gmail.com

Homework and quiz/exam submissions must be uploaded as a single zip file with the following name

{Last Name}_homework_notes{x} or {Last Name}_{quiz/exam}_milestone{x}

example:  Brick_homework_notes8 or Brick_final_milestone3



Syllabus
 Class Designation Text Requirement
Supporting Materials
  1

Course Overview
Primary Materials and Procedures.

Stein Ch 1-2 Pgs1-21
Units of structure: The Motive, figure, semi-Phrase & Cadence

  2 Stein Ch. 3-4 Pgs 22-36
Units of structure: Phrases & Irregular phrases

Composition_notes_02.html
  3 Stein Ch. 5 Pgs 37-48
Units of structure: Period or sentance form 		Composition_notes_03.html
  4 Stein ch. 6 pgs 47-54 Enlargements and combinations of period forms Composition_notes_04.html
  5

Quiz 1
Composition_notes_05.html
   
Section II: Song Form
 
  6 Stein ch. 7 pgs 57-63 Song Forms in General and Auxiliary Members Composition_notes_06.html
  7 Stein ch. 8 pgs 64-68 The Two Part Song Form Composition_notes_07.html
  8 Stein ch. 9 & 10 pgs 69-74 The Three Part Song Form and Expansions Composition_notes_08.html
  10 Review Section I and II
Units of Structure and Song Forms 		Composition_notes_09.html
   

Writing Assignment: See Homework: Assignment 2 Composition_notes_08.html
 Composition_notes_08.html
   
Section III: Single Movement Forms
 
  11 Stein Chapter 11: Song Form With Trio Composition_notes_10.html
  12 Stein Chapter 12: Rondo Forms Composition_notes_10.html
  13 Stein Chapter 13&14: Variation Forms Composition_notes_10.html
   
Midterm Assigned:
Please adhere to all milestones for completion
(click the active link to the right)
 Composition_notes_11.html
or
Composition_notes_11b.html
  14 Stein Chapter 14 & 15 Sonatina and Sonata Allegro Form
All section III Homeworks due 		Composition_notes_12.html
   
Section IV Compositional Techniques
 
  15
Brick Class Notes 13: Harmonic Rhythm
Composition_notes_13.html
  16
Brick Class Notes 14: Middleground and Background
Composition_notes_14.html
  17
Final Assigned:
Please adhere to all milestones for completion

Composition_notes_15.html

OR

Composition_notes_15b.html

OR

Composition_notes_15c.html