COURSE UNIT TITLE

: 20 TH CENTURY COMPSITION TECHNIQUES II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MAS 5236 20 TH CENTURY COMPSITION TECHNIQUES II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Music

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ONUR NURCAN

Offered to

Music

Course Objective

To comprehend advanced techniques of harmonic, contrapuntal and formal analysis through theoretical knowledge and historical process.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Apply various composition techniques used in the first half of 20th century
2   Explain a range of compositional techniques according to their principal aspects
3   - Assess similarities and dissimilarities of these techniques.
4   Recognize composition styles used in the second half of 20th century
5   Make a list of reasons why a particular composition, analyzed visually and audially, is written by a certain composer.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Rhythmic palindromes, modes of limited transposition Messiaen
2 Integral Serialism Boulez
3 Integral Serialism Stockhausen
4 Concepts of scarce and thick textures
5 Texture music Penderecki
6 Texture music Ligeti
7 Free and Aleatoric notation Cage, Brown and Feldman
8 Metric modulation Carter
9 Extended playing techniques Berio
10 Extended playing techniques (continued
11 Collage Berio and Foss
12 Eclectic and pluralist techniques Davies
13 Minimalism: Techniques of motive repetition and motive manipulation. Reich and Glass
14 Post minimal techniques John Adams
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Persichetti, Vincent; Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1961
Morgan, Robert P.; Anthology of Twentieth-Century Music, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York, 1992
Griffiths, Paul; The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of 20th-Century Music, The Thames and Hudson Inc., New York, 1986
Usmanbaş, Ilhan; Müzikte Biçimler, Devlet Konservatuvarı Yayınları, Milli Eğitim Basımevi, Istanbul, 1974
Ders notları
Müzik dağarından eser örnekleri

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Instruction, self-study, analysis, discussion, homework assignments.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.70 + FCG * 0.30
4 RST RESIT
5 RST RESIT ASG * 0.70 + RST * 0.30


Further Notes About Assessment Methods


EXAMS: A Final exam will be held at the end of the semester and a student will earn 30% of his/her grade through this exam.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS: A student will earn 70% of his/her grade via homework assignments given throughout the semester.

Assessment Criteria

Written exam (Final) and homework assignments aim at evaluating whether or not a student has achieved theoretical and applied proficiency as described in Learning Outcomes.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

onur.nurcan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday, 13.00 14.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical 14 3 42
Pre Class Self Study 14 3 42
Paper Preparation 14 4 56
Final Preparation 1 8 8
Final Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.232242
LO.332442
LO.442321
LO.542221

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