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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
COMPOSITION VII YBM401 Seventh Term (Fall) 2 + 0 9

TYPE OF COURSE UNITCompulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITBachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY4
SEMESTERSeventh Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED9
NAME OF LECTURER(S)Professor Mehmet Emin Göktepe
Instructor Duysal İmsel
Professor Fazlı Orhun Orhon
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) Prepares sketches and mature plans for at least fifteen minutes of music for the orchestra that includes personal language and creativity.
2) Has information about today's music movements and composition techniques.
MODE OF DELIVERYFace to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITIONTeaching theoretical and practical approaches to composing.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Sound, timber, space and electronic music.
2nd Week Sound, timber, space and electronic music continued
3rd Week Beyond pitch and rhytm
4th Week Beyond pitch and rhytm continued
5th Week First planning for final project and assesments
6th Week Counterpoint, heterophony and sound mass
7th Week Sound and sound space architecture
8th Week Second assesment
9th Week Vocal expression
10th Week comteporary repertoire for vocal music
11th Week Music onthology
12th Week Modernism-postmodernism
13th Week Pop-art
14th Week Third assesment before jury
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGModern Music and After, Griffiths, Paul, 2011/3rd, Oxford University Press
Genesis of a music; an account of a creative work, its roots and its fulfillments, Partch, Harry, 1974, Da Capo Press
Music notation : a manual of modern practice, Read, Gardner, 1979, Taplinger Pub. Co.
Recommended - Reading: 20th-century microtonal notation, Read, Gardner, 1990, Greenwood Press
Music notation in the twentieth century : a practical guidebook, Stone, Kurt, 1980, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
The contemporary violin : extended performance techniques, Strange, Patricia, 2001, University of California Press
Turk Musikisinin Mes'eleleri, Tura, Yalcin, 1988, Pan

PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODSLecture,Practice,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Assignment710
Project330
Other210
Total(%)50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)50
Total(%)100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities Number Hours Workload
Midterm exam224
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work14456
Preparation for Final exam11515
Course hours14228
Preparation for Midterm exam11010
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam122
Homework10110
Meeting with advisor111
Total Workload126
Total Workload / 304,2
ECTS Credits of the Course9
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONTurkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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