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Students compose weekly exercises to develop creative fluency and personal style. The course focuses on listening to examples, analysis and emulation of diverse compositional techniques involving rhythm.

Students compose weekly exercises to develop creative fluency and personal style. The course focuses on listening to examples, analysis and emulation of diverse compositional techniques involving pitch.

The course introduces composition techniques used in traditional music from Bali, Central African Republic, India, and Japan, that the students use as inspiration to explore and develop their own composition techniques. Prerequisite: Music 19A or Instructor's permission.

Extended performance techniques have become standard extension of composers' orchestration technique. The course introduces extended techniques for keyboard, string, woodwinds, brass and percussion instruments, and illustrate their potential with excerpts from the literature. Students get to explore these techniques with a quarter long research project. Prerequisite: Music 127A or Instructor's permission

This course is an incubator for new musical practices grounded in the cultivation of community. Learning from live performances, workshops, and archival texts by Black and queer feminist, Indigenous, and disability-culture activists, participants will deepen their understandings of their personal musical practices and backgrounds and imagine new ways of relating through sound. The course will center on a series of gatherings shaped in partnership with guest artists and local community organizations. Each participant will develop original sound-based experiences (compositions, guided meditations, or other participatory happenings) for these gatherings, supporting their classmates' initiatives as collaborative listeners and soundmakers. Participants with backgrounds in any sound-based practices are welcome. No prior experience in composition is necessary. Students who wish to enroll are asked to fill out a brief questionnaire [[ https://forms.gle/hw8NVG6ksMdMGuak7].