M-JP-LYW1

Profile, extension and depth: Practical Theory Classes

3

6

24

One 60-minute lesson per week

24 hours. If there are fewer applications for this subject than indicated in the description, it will typically proceed with proportionally less contact time (and accordingly more individual attention per student), but never with fewer than 3 students.

60 hours

Admitted to second year of Jazz & Pop, Music Theatre or Composition for Film and Theatre. This subject can only be followed on-campus.

See Competencies Matrix.

Developing lyric writing skills.

Related to arranging, composing modules.

This course, in essence, looks at the relationship between lyrics and music, especially the musical elements in lyrics. The main focus is on lyric writing and storytelling.
The idea is to provide students with a tool kit that can be useful when writing lyrics and understanding the core elements of rhythm, sound, and intonation within the lyric itself. The course looks into the musical aspects of language and how they are used and manipulated in popular music and jazz.
Those include, for example, alliteration and rhyme. Songs that use music creatively to support the meaning of the lyrics are analyzed to give examples of how music and lyrics can work together.
Furthermore, this course will look at other artists and how they have gathered inspiration for lyric writing and working methods. Students are introduced to applicable literary concepts to support and inspire lyric writing. Those include metaphors, personalization, irony, intertextuality, and more.
Students are also welcome to bring spoken words and poetry to the class if they focus on musical elements within the language.

Group classes.

Your own material.

Preparing a presentation.

Assessment by the instructor at the end of each semester.

Students should have mastered the elements described under Contents.

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.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.