Search NYU Steinhardt

Composition (Private)

Composition in all forms and styles including electronic. Electronic laboratory by assignment.

Course #
MPATC-UE 1021
Credits
2 - 4
Department
Music and Performing Arts Professions

Learning Outcomes

  • Develop your compositional skills
  • Develop your instrumentation and orchestration skills 
  • Apply music theory and aural skills at your current level of development
  • Get introduced and expand your knowledge in screen music composition
  • Identify the predominant creative approaches for contemporary screen music
  • Create revisions to your music based on constructive feedback and discussion
  • Create professional music and scores utilizing the tools at your disposal. Compose music using an efficient, well-defined, and consistent workflow

Assessment

You are expected to work individually a minimum of 8 hours per week for the 15 weeks of the semester, or the equivalent to 120 hours of work for the whole semester. This work should be in addition to the work done in other classes, even if they are both composition-focused.

In class, you will:

  • Discuss projects or compositions you are working on, either from NYU-related projects (collaborations and opportunities, program recording sessions, collaborations with film, videogame, or journalism schools, etc.) or projects outside of the opportunities offered by NYU
  • Work on compositions or projects assigned by your instructor
  • You are expected to participate in some of the opportunities and collaborations offered during the semester, as well as in the concerts offered by the composition program and the composers collective.

You will be graded for the work you compose. You are expected to produce work equivalent to the minimum number of individual hours of work detailed above.

For juniors and seniors, you will also be graded by how you compose, prepare, and follow the guidelines for the program recording sessions. For each recording session you are assigned to do, you should select a clip to score and bring a first draft to class with enough time to receive critiques. Then, you should bring revisions, as well as the score and parts to be checked by the instructor. During the recording sessions, you are expected to participate in the experience and provide useful feedback to the producers or the performers, if you wish to produce your own session.

Professors