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Screen Scoring Foundations: Harmony and Narrative

This course provides the theoretical foundations that serve as the building blocks for the music for the screen. Divided into two areas that eventually merge, the course explores the application of harmonic and melodic principles for screen music, as well as the study of the foundations of narrative theory and storytelling. Throughout a set of theoretical readings,analyses, and creative assignments, the students will develop a set of techniques to produce music that generates meaning and that enhances the story and the narrative as a whole.

Course #
MPATC-UE 1247
Credits
3
Department
Music and Performing Arts Professions

Methodology

We will be using flipped learning for this class. This means that you will learn the concepts by following recorded lectures and materials. Then, we will spend the synchronous time working on exercises and doing activities with the concepts you learned.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify the relevant theoretical foundations of storytelling and screenplay writing
  2. Identify a wide range of harmonical processes that are frequently used in screen music
  3. Implement a wide range of harmonical processes in their musical writing
  4. Analyze a Story, a Character, or a Scene
  5. Analyze the harmony of a screen music passage by applying the theoretical principles described in class
  6. Create music that produces meaning and that a) supports a story, b) helps the development of a character, and c) aids in the structure and generation of meaning of a scene.

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