Composing Music 3: Advanced

Elective Option for BA Hons Creative Arts*

This course will develop your technical and artistic skills as a composer and leads to a substantial piece of work using advanced compositional techniques. There are no course materials. Instead, the course takes the form of a compositional plan which you negotiate with your tutor, who will be an established composer. Students embarking on this course usually have in mind a major piece of work which they want to write, for instance a symphonic work, an oratorio, an opera or a song cycle. The student and their tutor-composer work together for about a year as the piece develops. This personal and very flexible approach is usually greatly appreciated by students and tutors and significant works are often the result of this close collaboration.