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MUED3603: Composition in Music Education
2024 unit information
This unit of study will examine the teaching and learning of composition in schools with a models-based pedagogy. Through the completion of small-scale arranging and composition exercises students will develop strategies to successfully integrate composition into their teaching and experience ways in which composition can be seen as a site of music learning. Students will survey sampling, sequencing and notation software, develop skills in software evaluation suitable for composition, and discuss how technology can enhance the teaching and learning of composition. Strategies for assessing composition work will be considered.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Music Education
| Code | MUED3603 |
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| Academic unit | Music Education |
| Credit points | 3 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the nature of the creative musical process and how that process may be taught
- LO2. understand and gain insight into strategies to teach composition by composing yourself
- LO3. acquire an analytical perspective of the composition process, compose your own short works and apply this knowledge to the teaching of composition
- LO4. obtain skills to instigate creative processes, supervise technical development and assist with the presentation of notated original compositions
- LO5. develop assessment strategies appropriate to courses in the secondary music curriculum
- LO6. explore different types of composition assessments
- LO7. understand issues of assessing composition as part of your music pedagogy.
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