Music Composition Project: Acoustic/Electronic

MCO4501.01
Course System Home Terms Spring 2017 Music Composition Project: Acoustic/Electronic

Course Description

Summary

In this course students will compose a substantial work for one solo instrument with electroacoustic accompaniment. Class will meet twice a week and will be team taught. In Tuesday's session we will review the history of compositions involving acoustic instruments with electronics and there will be technical instruction in the electronic music studio. On Thursdays, we will have further listening sessions, discussion of the student compositions in progress, focusing particularly on the instrumental component and its notation. Compositions will be performed in a culminating concert. Students must have good notational skills.

Prerequisites

Previous composition study and good notational skills or permission of the instructor.

Please contact the faculty member : ashawn@bennington.edu

Instructor

  • Allen Shawn

Day and Time

Academic Term

Spring 2017

Area of Study

Credits

4

Course Level

4000

Maximum Enrollment

10