MYE 558E - Recent Trends in Music.Comp.

Course Objectives

To develop a sense of different compositional techniques and styles being composed in
today,
2. To explore different ways of writing about contemporary music,
3. To understand the different aesthetic aims of a diverse body of composers,

Course Description

Review and study of music composed in the last thirty years by a diverse group of composers
exhibiting a wide range of compositional styles and aesthetic positions, This course reflects an effort to
come to terms with and understand musical composition composition as it recently has been and to
theorize about where it might go,