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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 21M.065 (Fall 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Introduction to Musical Composition 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Music and Theater Arts 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Brian Robison 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 21M.065 Introduction to Musical Composition



    Fall 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive list of listening assignments and recordings of final composition projects.


    Course Description


    Through a progressive series of composition projects, this course investigates the sonic organization of musical works and performances, focusing on fundamental questions of unity and variety. Aesthetic issues are considered in the pragmatic context of the instructions that composers provide to achieve a desired musical result, whether these instructions are notated in prose, as graphic images, or in symbolic notation. No formal training is required. Weekly listening, reading, and composition assignments draw on a broad range of musical styles and intellectual traditions, from various cultures and historical periods.


    Special Features




    Technical Requirements


    Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .mp3 and .rm.

     

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