Module Code - Title:
MU4054
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MUSIC COMPOSITION 2
Year Last Offered:
2026/7
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Music Composition 2 develops students engagement with a range of contemporary acoustic and electronic music composition practices, with the aim of deepening each student's individual composition practice. Composition practices from within and outside of oral traditions, both score-based and non-score-based, are explored.
Syllabus:
Students expand their engagement with a range of approaches to music composition, broadening their experience of diverse compositional concepts, methods and techniques, towards the development of their own distinctive creative practice. Students also develop their skills in peer learning.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
• Develop knowledge of various music composition styles.
• Apply a variety of approaches to music composition.
• Enhance skills in musical analysis.
• Plan and produce a portfolio of original music compositions.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
• Evaluate and critique their own music compositions and those of others.
• Engage in respectful and ethical collaborative artistic practice with fellow students and mentors.
• Value individual creative process and artistic identity.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Through presentation of their music compositions, students further develop their ability to skilfully perform motor skills specific to instrumental and vocal music improvisation and performance.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module is taught through weekly composition tutorials. Students work individually and collaboratively to create a portfolio of music composition work.
Prime Texts:
Bailey, D. (1993)
Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music
, Da Capo
Collins, D. (2016)
The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process
, Routledge
Toop. D. (1995)
Ocean of Sound
, Serpent's Tail
Roads, C. (2015)
Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic
, Oxford University Press
David, B. and Cohen, R. and Jane, S. (Eds.) (2013)
Peer Learning in Higher Education
, Routledge
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN CONTEMPORARY DANCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN IRISH DANCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN IRISH MUSIC
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN MUSIC
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN VOICE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN WORLD MUSIC
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
eoin.callery@ul.ie