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Unit of Study MUS10547 - Advanced Songwriting and Arrangement (2016)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    have completed unit: [[MUS00630} Songwriting]

Unit description

Develops techniques, approaches and cognitive processes in songwriting/arranging and composition in general. Creates awareness of advanced music compositional concepts and their application.

Unit content

  • Writing/arranging for bass and drums
  • Writing/arranging for guitar and keyboards
  • Riffs & odd time signatures
  • Balanced & unbalanced formal concepts
  • Form in songwriting, advanced concepts in chord progressions
  • Advanced concepts in chord progressions
  • Sectional harmony
  • Arranging for vocal group
  • Arranging for small horn section
  • Arranging for strings
  • Music in advertising

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 2 Session 2
Online Session 2 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 demonstrate an awareness of formal, harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic structures in songwriting
2 demonstrate an understanding of methods and processes used in contemporary music composition
3 write and arrange music with an extended knowledge of processes and techniques.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate an awareness of formal, harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic structures in songwriting
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  2. demonstrate an understanding of methods and processes used in contemporary music composition
    • GA2:
    • GA6:
  3. write and arrange music with an extended knowledge of processes and techniques.
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
    • GA6:

Prescribed learning resources

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