Graduate Composition, Arranging, and Sound Design 2

Graduate Composition, Arranging, and Sound Design 2 explicitly builds on Graduate Composition, Arranging, and Sound Design 1. It is designed for graduate students who wish to continue to specialise at an professional level in composition, arranging and/or sound design. Students will work with a supervisor in preparing a composition portfolio of works, or a series of projects based upon advanced principles of sound design that reflect the student's own interests and professional focus. This learning will be supplemented with attendance and participation at Composition Seminar. To support this creative work, students will analyse at an advanced level theories, structures, methods, approaches and techniques in a range of styles and in a range of instrumental and vocal repertoire. They will also study advanced principles of sound design in relation to music for film and television, theatre, videogames, and sound installations. The study of instrumentation, orchestration and arrangement, and sound design will reference scores and musical sound design creations from a range of historical periods and styles complements the compositional work.