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Composition

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Music Composition at UNC Chapel Hill

Welcome to the Composition Area webpage.  This page provides information related to course offerings in composition for students who wish to emphasize composition at UNC and for those who wish to simply enroll in selected courses.  The page also provides important information related to scholarship opportunities in composition.  Please feel free to contact the composition faculty—Dr. Allen Anderson (Director of Composition) or Dr. Stephen Anderson with any questions you may have about the composition area (full contact information is provided below).

NEWS - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CALL FOR TWO-CHANNEL ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC AUDIO COMPOSITIONS  

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COURSE OFFERINGS

Allen Anderson Grading PapersThe department offers two principle courses in composition—MUSC 166 Introduction to Composition and MUSC 266 Advanced Composition.  The Introduction to Composition course is offered once each year—either fall or spring semesters, and the Advanced Composition course is offered both fall and spring semesters and may be taken multiple times for credit and can satisfy a portion or all of the lesson requirements for the BMus degree.  Writing projects in Advanced Composition are often linked with events in the department or on campus.  In recent semesters, projects have included string quartets read by the visiting Arditti String Quartet, compositions for chamber choir read by the UNC Chamber Singers, saxophone quartets performed by members of the saxophone studio, electro-acoustic music premiered on a concert with works by visiting composer/performer Butch Rovan, and compositions paired with and performed next to art in the UNC’s Ackland Art Museum. In spring 2009, the composition students jointly wrote a fanfare for the dedication of the new Kenan Music Building.

In addition to these course offerings, we invite and encourage composition students to take MUSC 332 Counterpoint, MUSC 167 Instrumentation, and MUSC 267 Orchestration.  Students may also elect to take MUSC 169 Jazz Arranging for training in jazz scoring.

S. Anderson compositionStudents of any major may sign up for MUSC 166 Introduction to Composition without an audition but must complete MUSC 131/MUSC 130 Music Theory and Musicianship Skills as prerequisites, and the MUSC 136 Keyboarding Skills 1 course is strongly encouraged for "non-pianists" in order to develop rudimentary keyboard techniques.  Together these courses will help to provide the theoretical and technical background that will expand the harmonic palette and imagination, thus enabling the students' capacity to compose harmony more effectively once they enter the Introduction to Composition class.   

Prerequisites or "Strongly Encouraged" Courses Prior to Admittance into MUSC 166 Introduction to Composition

•    MUSC 131/MUSC 130 Music Theory and Musicianship Skills I (prequisites)
•    MUSC 136 Keyboard Skills 1 (strongly encouraged)

Principal Composition Course Offerings

•    MUSC 166 Introduction to Composition (perquisites MUSC 131/130, MUSC 136)
•    MUSC 266 Advanced Composition (for repeat credit – prerequisite MUSC 166)

Other Recommended Courses Related to Composition

•    MUSC 167 Instrumentation
•    MUSC 168 Basic Conducting
•    MUSC 267 Orchestration
•    MUSC 332 Counterpoint 

SCHOLARSHIP AUDITION INFORMATION IN COMPOSITION

*Students who wish to audition for a scholarship in composition may do so by completing the on-line form at https://aswww2.oasis.unc.edu/musicsec/.  After completing the on-line form, in order to schedule an audition in composition, students must contact Professor Jeffrey Fuchs (Chair of the Scholarship Committee jfuchs@email.unc.edu) and inform him that you would like to audition for a scholarship in composition. 

The audition consists of a meeting with the composition faculty and playing a recording (CD preferred) of 1-2 original compositions and presenting and discussing the score(s).  Applicants will be considered for a scholarship by the creativity and cohesiveness of the presented composition (s), the effectiveness of the notation (where applicable), and by the applicant’s ability to communicate and discuss the music.

ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC STUDIO AND COMPUTER LAB FOR MUSIC STUDENTS

Electro-Acoustic Studio: The composition area has a designated "Electro-Acoustic Studio" for students who are enrolled in composition courses at UNC.  This studio is located in Hill Hall above room 107 and provides access to Peak, Protools, and GRM Tools softwares.  For more information contact Dr. Stephen Anderson, who oversees the studio. 

beasley center pictFinale and other computer music software for student use:  The Department of Music, in conjunction with the Beasley Multimedia Resource Center (located in Graham Memorial), provides workstations where music students can score their music on Finale 2008, or work on audio editing projects through the use of various software, including:  Protools, Audacity, Soundtrack Pro, Logic, and Adobe Soundbooth.  Students are encouraged to use these facilities for their course work and artistic development.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC COURSE OFFERINGS

For general information regarding the course offerings within the music department visit: http://music.unc.edu/undergrad/ug_handbook

COMPOSITION FACULTY

Dr. Allen Anderson
Director of Composition
Office: 203 Hill Hall
anderso7@email.unc.edu
919-962-2276 O

Dr. Stephen R. Anderson, D.M.A.
Jazz Studies (piano) and Composition
Department of Music, CB #3320
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3320
Kenan Music Building – Office 2119
919.843.7902 O
anderssr@email.unc.edu
http://artiststephenanderson.com
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