Introduction
Course overview
Music Concepts
Contemporary jazz and electronic dance music (EDM)
Vocal music
Song cycle
Sacred music – mass
Sacred music – motet
Sacred music – anthem
Sacred music – chorale
Renaissance vocal music
Renaissance instrumental and dance music
Antiphonal texture
Fugue
Choral fugues
Piano trio
Leitmotif
Music Styles
Nationalist music
Serial music
Neoclassical music
Bitonality and polytonality
Music Literacy
Concepts
Scales and key signatures
Chords and inversions
More chords and intervals
Rhythm
Signs, symbols and abbreviations
Course Assessment
Course overview
The question paper
Some helpful tips
Identifying prominent concepts and analysis
Assignment
Overview and composing review
Composing
Arranging
The composing or arranging process
Assessment of composing
Assessment of arranging
Score or performance plan
Review of the creative process
Analysing music