Course Description
Summary
In this course, students will work on a extended piece (9+ minutes), as well as a suite of miniatures ( 30 seconds). By playing with scale and continuity, students will be challenged to find their own way to extend their ideas while enriching their own musical language. Students can propose a piece in any style or forces, and we will work together to recruit instrumentalists or resources towards an end-of-term performance or installation. Weekly listening and readings will focus on analysis of long-form pieces, as well as how duration interacts with installational, improvisational, and multi-disciplinary contexts. Listenings and readings will be gathered from a broad range of long-form repertoires, with some focus on classical forms from East and South Asia such as khyal, sanjo, and gagaku. Class discussion will involve feedback on projects and compositional process, and we鈥檒l discuss form, aesthetic, orchestration, and idiomatic writing in related works.
