Part 1: Exploring rhythm – Coursework

• Projects
  • Project 1: Percussion Solo
  • Project 2: Duets
  • Project 3: Three or more instruments
  • Project 4: About structure
• Research Points
  • Variable Meter
    
• Assignment 1 – Wild Dance
  • Composing Music – Assignment 1
  • Assignment 1 – Reflection

Part 1: Listening Log

• Listening Log №1 – Olivier Messiaen – Le Banquet Céleste (1928)
• Listening Log №2 – Carlos Chávez – Toccata for Percussion Instruments (1942)
• Listening Log №3 – Boris Blacher – Orchestral Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 26: Variation 2 (1947)
• Listening Log №4 – Alberto Ginastera – Cantata para América Mágica (1960)

Part 2: Exploring melody and scales – Coursework

• Projects
  • Project 5: Pentatonic Melody
  • Project 6: Analyzing a solo composition
  • Project 7: Exploring different scales
    
• Research Points
  • Introducing wind instruments
  • An instrument’s personality
    
• Assignment 2 – Solo Wind Instrument
  • Composing Music – Assignment 2
  • Assignment 2 – Reflection

Part 2: Listening Log

• Listening Log №5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos – Bachianas Brasileiras 6 (1938)
• Listening Log №6 – Jacques Ibert – Pièce (1936)
• Listening Log №7 – Robin Walker – A Rune for St. Mary’s (2003)
• Listening Log №8 – Benjamin Britten – Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, No. 4: Bacchus (1951)
• Listening Log №9 – Alan Hovhaness – Lament (1935)
• Listening Log №10 – Paul Creston – Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Op.19 (1939)
• Listening Log №11 – Kaija Saariaho – Asteroid 4179, Toutatis (2005)
• Listening Log №12 – Willson Osborne – Rhapsody for Bassoon (1952)
• Listening Log №13 – Carla Bley – ‘And Now, the Queen’ and ‘Violin'(1976)

Part 3: Rounds, descants, polyphony – Coursework

• Projects
  • Project 8: Rounds and catches
  • Project 9: Descants
  • Project 10: Contrapuntal trial
    
• Research Points
  • Henry Purcell, rounds and catches
  • Polyphonic vocal compositions
    
• Assignment 3
  • Composing Music – Assignment 3
  • Assignment 3 – Reflection

Part 3: Listening Log

• Listening Log №14 – Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan [Round] (1612)
• Listening Log №15 – Henry Purcell – ‘An ape, a lion, a fox, and an ass’ (17th c.)
• Listening Log №16 – Tania León – Indígena (1991)
• Listening Log №17 – John Church – ‘Poor Owen’ [Round/Canon] (17th c.)
• Listening Log №18 – William Byrd – ‘Tristitia et anxietas – Sed tu Domine’ [Motet] (1580)
• Listening Log №19 – Astor Piazzolla – Four, for Tango (1988)
• Listening Log №20 – Thomas Tallis – Spem in Alium [Motet] (1570)

Part 4: Exploring counterpoint – Coursework

• Projects
  • Project 11: Inventing free counterpoint
  • Project 12: Two part inventions
    
• Research Points
  • Bach fugues and inventions
    
• Assignment 4

Part 4: Listening Log

• Listening Log №21 – György Ligeti – Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)

Part 5: Exploring harmony – Coursework

• Projects
  • Project 13: Elaborate cadences
  • Project 14: Improvisation on a dominant
    
• Research Points
  • Cadenzas
  • Wagner – ‘Prelude’ from Das Rheingold
    
• Assignment 5

Part 5: Exploring harmony – Listening Log