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Bachelor of Music (Degree with Honours)Informal specialisationYear: 2022
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Composition
Contact information
Students currently admitted in this course:
Future students:
Coordinator
Stuart Greenbaum
Overview
Students further develop compositional skills and personal voice through a deep engangement with the discipline. Compositional projects will range from writing a duo to an orchestral work, and culminate in a concert presentation of student works. A Professional Project elective allows for the procurement and/or curation of work in a concert or public context outside of the University, building engagement with the profession.
Last updated: 12 November 2022
Structure
100 credit points
Composition Specialisation
100-point program:
- 62.5 points of compulsory subjects
- 37.5 of elective subjects
Subject Options
Compulsory Subjects
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSI40036 | Conducting | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40064 | The Research Process for Musicians |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
| MUSI40067 | Honours Composition 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
| MUSI40068 | Honours Composition 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
18.75 |
Elective Subjects
Students select 37.5 points from the list below:
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSI40036 | Conducting | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI30031 | Electro-Acoustic Music | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI30259 | Interpretation of French Art Song | Not available in 2022 | 6.25 |
| MUSI30262 | French Lyric Diction | Not available in 2022 | 6.25 |
| MUSI30265 | Italian Lyric Diction | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
6.25 |
| MUSI30266 | German Lyric Diction | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
6.25 |
| MUSI30267 | Interpretation of German Lieder | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
6.25 |
| MUSI30268 | Interpretation Italian Lyric Repertoire | Not available in 2022 | 6.25 |
| MUSI40103 | Figured Bass Realisation 1 | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40032 | Historical Performance Practice | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40063 | Honours Ensemble 1 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
6.25 |
| MUSI40080 | Honours Ensemble 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank)
|
6.25 |
| MUSI40090 | Latin American Music and Culture | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40055 | Music Analysis | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40074 | Music and Health | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40099 | Music and Politics | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40094 | Music as Noise: Making Sound Art | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40047 | Music in the Culture of the Renaissance | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40091 | Music Internship | Semester 2 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40092 | Music Management and Enterprise | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40075 | Music Psychology | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40078 | Music Research (Honours) | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40076 | Musics of the World | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| MUSI30025 | Orchestration | Semester 1 (On Campus - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40027 | Paris! Berlioz to the Ballets Russes | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40058 | Sex, Death and the Ecstatic in Music | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40056 | Special Study |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
| MUSI40021 | Stravinsky and Music of the 20th Century | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40054 | Studies In Opera | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40079 | The Ethnography of Music (Honours) | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40095 | The Music of Spain | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40098 | The Romantic Piano | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40028 | Music and Gender | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
| MUSI40101 | Thesis Part 1 |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
| MUSI40102 | Thesis Part 2 |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
| MUSI40109 | Wagner's Ring | No longer available | |
| MUSI40110 | Honours Music Studies 1 | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Southbank) |
12.5 |
| MUSI40111 | Honours Music Studies 2 | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
Last updated: 12 November 2022