Music Composition
21M.351 · Music and Theater Arts · Undergraduate, Graduate · Fall 2008
Prof. Peter Child
This course features directed composition of larger forms of original writing involving voices and/or instruments. It includes a weekly seminar in composition for the presentation and discussion of work in progress. Students are expected to produce at least one substantive work, performed in public, by the end of the term. Contemporary compositions and major works from 20th-century music literature are studied.
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