MP 1230 - Music Composition I

Credits: 3

In this freshman-level introduction to songwriting, students will learn how to align lyric, melody, harmony, and arrangement to craft songs. Through analysis of examples, creative demonstrations, and applied projects that address each of the above elements of song as primary, students will learn to write songs in different ways while growing their technical understanding of song form, emotional tension and release, and reinforcement between words and music.

Prerequisites: MP 1110 - Theories of Musical Practice I

Course Learning Outcomes:

Utilize melody and harmonic accompaniment to create tension, release, and musical form.
Produce digital recordings of original music.
Create lyrical/lexical meaning or programmatic narrative.