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Bachelor of Music

Digital Music Composition

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Minimum levels of achievement

Resolutions Area of study Credit points Minimum levels of achievement to qualify for the award of pass degree
Program Digital Music Composition;
Composition and Music Technology
72
  • Digital Music Composition 1-6;
  • Composition 7-8;
  • Electroacoustic Music
  • Creative Music Technology
  • Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
  • Computer Music Fundamentals
  • Interactive Media and Sound Installations.
Core Music Skills 24

Either:

  1. 12cp Fundamentals of Music units; or
  2. 12 cp Harmony & Analysis 1-2 and Aural Perception 1-2; and
    12cps chosen Music Skills units (recommend 6cps Popular Music Theory).
Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies (AHCS)
24
  • Australian Indigenous Music
  • This is Music
  • Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media
  • 12 cps chosen AHCS units (recommend: Australian Musical Worlds; Writing Electronic Dance Music (EDM).
Additional Core Performance and Ensemble 12 12 cps chosen Performance or Ensemble units (recommend: Live Electronic Music Performance).
Final Year Project

Professional & Industry Skills

12 12 cps in Music Specialist Creative Project.
Major or Electives Major or Electives 48

Either:

  1. a chosen major from Table S or
  2. 36 cps of a chosen minor in Table A (Music) or Table S and 12 cps of electives or
  3. 48 cps of electives that an include up to 6 cps units from Table O).

Enrolment pattern

Semester 1 CP Semester 2 CP Semester 3 CP Semester 4 CP
CMPN1231
Digital Music Composition 1
6 CMPN1232
Digital Music Composition 2
6 CMPN2233
Digital Music Composition 3
6 CMPN2234
Digital Music Composition 4
6
Music Skills
6 Music Skills 6 Music Skills unit (recommend MUSC2695 Popular Music Theory) 6 Music Skills unit 6
CMPN2631
Electroacoustic Music
6 AHCS unit (recommend MCGY1031 Australian Musical Worlds)
6 MUSC1507
Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media
6 CMPN2632
Computer Music Fundamentals
6
MCGY1030
This is Music
6 CMPN1013
Creative Music Technology;
CMPN1014
Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
6 AHCS unit
(recommend MUSC3650 Writing Electronic Dance Music (EDM))
6 Major/minor/elective 6
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0            
  24   24   24   24
Semester 5 CP Semester 6 CP Semester 7 CP Semester 8 CP
CMPN3235
Digital Music Composition 5
6 CMPN3236
Digital Music Composition 6
6 CMPN4607
Composition 7
6 CMPN4608
Composition 8
6
Performance/Ensemble (recommend CMPN3636 Live Electronic Music Performance) 6 Performance/Ensemble 6 SCMP4601
Music Specialist Creative Project 1
6 SCMP4602
Music Specialist Creative Project 2
6
Elective 6 CMPN3634
Interactive Media and Sound Installations
6 Major/minor/elective 12 Major/minor/elective 12
Elective 6 Elective 6        
  24   24   24   24

Post-publication amendments

Date Original publication Post-publication amendment
26/11/2025 Minimum levels of achievement section contained outdated content. Minimum levels of achievement section updated with new current content.
26/11/2025 Enrolment pattern section contained outdated content. nrolment pattern section updated with new current content.