MUC 415 - Contemporary Composition Techniques, 2 credit hours

Prerequisite(s): MUC 217; Composition majors only or permission of instructor
An exploration and composition modeling course of 20th and 21st century compositional trends and techniques, specifically twelve-tone, serialism, indeterminacy, process/algorithmic, proportional notation, minimalism, third-stream (jazz influence), rock influenced, and tonal/nonfunctional music writing.