COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EDUCATION MUSIC COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZE 5003 EDUCATION MUSIC COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Music Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR GÜRKAN GÜLEÇ

Offered to

Music Teacher Education

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to teach students theoretical and practical techniques of composing, to develop musical creativeness either lyrical or non-lyrical.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowing the kinds of educational music.
2   Learning composing techniques theoretically and practically.
3   Learning how to compose motive, phrase and period.
4   Composing child songs and canons by learning prosodical rules.
5   Composing piano accompany to school songs.
6   Composing educational music for chamber music assemblies.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The analysis and types of music included in educational music.
2 Methods of writing melodies.
3 Composing motive, phrase and period.
4 Composing non-lyrical song
5 Prosody
6 Composing lyrical child songs
7 Composing lyrical anthems
8 Midterm Exam
9 Imitation and imitation types
10 Canon and canons analysis
11 Composing lyrical canons for children
12 Composing polyphonic songs for choirs
13 Methods of piano accompanies
14 Compozing for chamber music assemblies
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1-Yücel Köse, Music Theory with exercises
2-Yücel Köse, Applied Harmony Education I-II
3-Yücel Köse, Applied Counterpoint Education
4-Turan Sağer, Aytekin Albuz, Composing Educational Music

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1-Lecturing the lesson:
While teaching theories will be explained with a detailed example.
2-Composing a melody:
Producing a tonal or modal melody.
3-Harmonycal analysis:
To be able to arrange a polyphonic melody, the harmonical structure well be analyzed.
4-Weekly assignments:
Students Write educational compositions with the topics covered
5-Presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yucel.kose@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Tutorials 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 30 1 30
Preparing presentations 15 1 15
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 99

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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