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Diploma of Music

Composition

Enrolment pattern

This page was first published on 14 November 2024 and was last amended on 20 November 2024.

Minimum levels of achievement

Resolutions Area of study
Credit points
Minimum levels of achievement to qualify for the award of pass degree
Core Music Skills 18 18 credit points in Music Skills units
Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies (AHCS) 12 0 cps Australian Indigenous Music;
6 cps This is Music;
6 credit points in AHCS units
Principal Study Principal Study 24
Composition 1-4
Additional Core Composition 24 6 cps Instrumentation and Orchestration;
6 cps Comp Techniques: Number and Process;
6 cps Comp Techniques: Tonality and Process;
6 credit points in Composition Studies units
Electives Electives 18
Electives from Table A (music) and/or Table S and/or table O

Enrolment pattern

Semester 1 CP
Semester 2
CP
Semester 3
CP
Semester 4
CP
CMPN1601
Composition 1
6
CMPN1602
Composition 2
6
CMPN2603
Composition 3
6
CMPN2604
Composition 4
6
Prescribed Music Theory and Aural Skills units 6
Prescribed Music Theory and Aural Skills units
6
Prescribed Music Theory and Aural Skills units
6
AHCS elective
6
CMPN1611
Instrumentation & Orchestration
6
Music Technology unit
6
CMPN2613
Comp Techniques: Number and Process
6
CMPN2614
Comp Techniques: Tonality and Process
6
MCGY1030
This is Music
6
Elective unit of study 6
Elective unit of study 6
Elective unit of study 6
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0
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