This course will cover composition techniques developed and used during the historical period between the end of WWII and present with an emphasis to musical form. It will include the following modules:
Most topics will be accompanied by Lecture notes including score fragments, articles and concise smmaries of the subjects presented. It is recommended that all these note be printed and collected in a binder to serve as review materials.
There will be seven assignments, two writing assignments (short papers) and five required readings (articles by Boulez, Cage, Stockhausen, Xenakis, etc.) which will be discussed in class. Participation in such discussions will count toward the final grade. There will also be four short (15 min.) listening quizzes. A list of works included on each quiz could be found in Listening Quizzes.
The grading:
7 Assignments, 8% each 56%
4 Listening quizzes, 3% each 12%
Final 20%
Class participation 12%
Please read carefully:
According to Article 1, Part IV, section 402 of the University of Illinois
Student Code, plagiarism is defined as representing the
words or ideas of another as one's own in any academic endeavor. This includes
copying another student's paper or working with another person when both submit
similar papers without authorization to satisfy an individual assignment.
This constitutes an infraction of academic integrity that may result in a
variety of penalties as well as a permanent record of the infraction being
placed in your student file (see
http://admin.illinois.edu/policy/code/article1_part4_1-403.html
[ms6.express.cites.uiuc.edu]).
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