Students are introduced to various composition and instrumental techniques, styles, genres and theories.
They learn how to use these techniques in their autonomous compositions as well as while working on interdisciplinary productions.
Notation is stressed so that students learn to compose for third parties and produce clear scores and parts.

This module is related to the main subject modules. The elective is similar to the required course for Year 1 CFT students.

This module comprises knowledge of basic compositional techniques (a Composers' Toolbox"). Students discuss existing works and styles in the classroom and receive exercises in writing for different genres.

Group lessons that, depending on the composition of the group, take place entirely on-campus, entirely online or in a combination of both, i.e., that there are attendees both physically in the classroom and virtually via a screen. Online attendees communicate by seeing, talking and listening to each other and the on-campus attendees equally. The teacher has access to a whiteboard, application sharing, desktop sharing and document sharing and can hand this privilege to any other participants.
Apart from the video conference a high quality stereo audio stream is open at the same time via source connect. That way students and instructor can listen to music from any source of the group and talk about it simultaneously.

Videos, links to articles and websites, hand-outs, books.

Presentations, written assignments, reflections, discussions, analysis of existing scores across genres.
Tips in how to more efficiently approach composition for autonomous pieces as well as interdisciplinary projects.

Examination and assessment

Assessment by the instructor at the end of each semester.
Evaluated regarding the overall involvement of the student and the small assignments throughout the whole course. Written and Oral tests.

Students should have mastered the elements described under Contents and Aims. Active participation is taken into account in the summative grading.

The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5 at the end of the second semester.

Students are assessed at the end of both semesters. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit.
Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester.
The end-of-semester assessments comprise evaluations of students' performance during the lessons and assignments.
Tests conducted online are valid only if it is done without interruption. The assessor will decide whether or not the test was valid.

Composition Techniques (Renske Vrolijk)

Form / content / level

Examination and assessment

Module summary