Where do creative ideas come from and how do we express them? Drawing on our relationship with visual art, language, and universal experiences, we will explore bringing the ideas in our minds to forms we can share. Content will include non-traditional scoring techniques (graphic, conceptual, process, text-based) in addition to issues of the essential components of sound. Open to those with or without previous training. Inventiveness, curiosity and problem solving are encouraged. This course may be used to satisfy the 21st Century Proficiencies (Composition/Arranging) requirement for Bachelors of Music students.

Where do creative ideas come from and how do we express them? Drawing on our relationship with visual art, language, and universal experiences, we will explore bringing the ideas in our minds to forms we can share. Content will include non-traditional scoring techniques (graphic, conceptual, process, text-based) in addition to issues of the essential components of sound. Open to those with or without previous training. Inventiveness, curiosity and problem solving are encouraged. This course may be used to satisfy the 21st Century Proficiencies (Composition/Arranging) requirement for Bachelors of Music students.

Where do creative ideas come from and how do we express them? This course will approach answers to these questions and more by studying non-traditional scoring techniques (conceptual, process, text-based, graphic scores, etc.) in addition to those with specific melodic and harmonic content. Students will compose works in a variety of styles. Composers and works to be studied include: Earle Brown ("Folio", "Available Forms", "Windsor Jambs") John Cage ("Aria", "Song Books", "Constructions in Metal", "She Is Asleep", and texts: "Silence", "A Week from Monday") Morton Feldman ("The King of Denmark", "Three Voices", "String Quartet No. 2", "Rothko Chapel", and text: "Give my Regards to Eighth Street") FLUXUS (conceptual works by Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Yoko Ono, etc.) Pauline Oliveros ("Anthology of Text Scores" [available from Deep Listening Institute], "Sonic Meditations", "Sound Patterns") Steve Reich ("Pendulum Music", "Music for Pieces of Wood", "Clapping Music", "Tehellim") Terry Riley ("In C") Kurt Schwitters ("Ur Sonate") This course may be used to satisfy the 21st Century Proficiencies (Composition/Arranging) requirement for Bachelors of Music students.