Diploma of Music

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Composition for Creative Industries

Enrolment pattern

Minimum levels of achievement

Resolutions Area of study Credit points Minimum levels of achievement to qualify for the award of pass degree
Principal Study Area Composition for Creative Industries
24 Composition for Creative Industries 1-4.
Additional Core Composition Studies 24
  • Instrumentation and Orchestration
  • Scoring and Arranging for the Screen
  • Music Notation and Publishing
  • Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
  • Creative Music Technology.
Core Music Skills 18

Either:

  1. 12cp Fundamentals of Music units; or
  2. 12cp Harmony & Analysis 1-2 and Aural Perception 1-2; and 6cps chosen Music Skills unit (recommend Popular Music Theory).
Analytical, Historical and Cultural Studies (AHCS) 12
  • Australian Indigenous Music
  • This is Music
  • Classical Music: A Cultural History.
Electives Electives 18 Table A (Music) and/or Table S.

Enrolment pattern

Semester 1 CP Semester 2 CP Semester 3 CP Semester 4 CP
CMPN1331
Composition for Creative Industries 1
6 CMPN1332
Composition for Creative Industries 2
6 CMPN2333
Composition for Creative Industries 3
6 CMPN2334
Composition for Creative Industries 4
6
Music Skills 6 Music Skills 6 Music Skills unit
(recommend MUSC2695 Popular Music Theory)
6 CMPN2510
Scoring and Arranging for the Screen
6
CMPN2320
Music Notation and Publishing
6 CMPN1013
Creative Music Technology;
CMPN1014
Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
6 CMPN1611
Instrumentation and Orchestration
6 Electives 12
MCGY1030
This is Music
6 MUSC1506
Classical Music: A Cultural History
6 Elective 6    
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0
  24   24   24   24

Post-publication amendments

Date Original publication Post-publication amendment
06/05/2026 CMPN1503 code published as:
"CMPN1503"
CMPN1503 code amended to:
"CMPN1013"
06/05/2026 CMPN1504 code published as:
"CMPN1504"
CMPN1504 code amended to:
"CMPN1014"