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Diploma of Music

Composition

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 Principal Study 24 Composition 1-4.
Additional Core Composition 24
  • Music Notation and Publishing
  • Instrumentation and Orchestration
  • Creative Music Technology
  • Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
  • 6 cps chosen Composition Studies units.
Core Music Skills 18

Either:

  1. Harmony and Analysis 1-3; Aural Perception 1-3; or
  2. Jazz Harmony and Arranging 1-3; Jazz Ear Training 1-3; or
  3. A combination of options 1 and 2.
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
CMPN1601
Composition 1
6
CMPN1602
Composition 2
6
CMPN2603
Composition 3
6
CMPN2604
Composition 4
6
Music Skills 6
Music Skills 6
Music Skills 6
AHCS elective
6
CMPN2320
Music Notation and Publishing
6
CMPN1013
Creative Music Technology, and
CMPN1014
Sound and Video Recording Fundamentals
6
CMPN1611
Instrumentation and Orchestration
6
Composition Studies unit 6
MCGY1030
This is Music
6
MUSC1506:
Classical Music: A Cultural History
6
Elective  6
Elective  12
MCGY0000
Australian Indigenous Music
0
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