Contemporary Compositional Techniques (module 1) 3106-WWK-KON
This class is aimed at introducing students to compositional techniques and stylistic trends in 20th and 21st century music. Class activities include, among others, analyzing scores and recordings, and applying gained knowledge in individual creative attempts.
Addressed problems:
– new scales, chords, tonal systems;
– new sounds, new instruments, piano preparation;
– theory and analysis of post-tonal music;
– serial techniques;
– minimal music techniques.
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
– class attendance,
– written analytical/creative assignment.
Bibliography
Selection:
– Cope D., Techniques of the Contemporary Composer, New York 1997.
– Dunsby J. (red.), Models of Musical Analysis. Early Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge 1993.
– Kostka S. Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music (wyd. 3), Prentice Hall 2005.
– Kostka S., Santa M., Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music (wyd. 5), Routledge 2018.
– Strauss J. N., Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory (wyd. 3), Pearson 2004.
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: