Also reading and listening assignments. Final project is selecting and orchestrating a short piano composition for chamber orchestra. 407 Directed Individual Studies Special topics that vary from term to term. 471 Orchestration Techniques used by composers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries will be compared and analyzed. Reading and listening assignments as well as attendance at School of Music ensemble rehearsals.
Final project involves composing or arranging an extended work for wind ensemble or orchestra.
I Involves analysis and practice of the craft of counterpoint based upon 18th-century repertoire of Western music and scholarly treatises of both that period and the present. Pedagogical treaties of that era as well as contemporary scholarship are dealt with in analytical and creative tasks. Counterpoint A progressive, systematic method for understanding the problems and conventions for coordinating melodic lines when several lines occur simultaneously. 481 Practical Ornamentation and Elaboration Analysis of scores and treatises of the 17th and 18th centuries undergird creative invention of ornamentation and elaboration in the specific style of major composers of these eras. 482 Analytical History of Jazz Treats the evolution of jazz in the United States through the 1940s.