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21M.065 Introduction to Musical Composition
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Not offered academic year 2024-2025Undergrad (Spring) HASS Arts
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 3-0-9
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Through a progressive series of composition projects, students investigate 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. Weekly listening, reading, and composition assignments draw on a broad range of musical styles and intellectual traditions, from various cultures and historical periods. Basic music reading skills required.  Limited to 18.
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