2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

MUS1221 Creating Music

20 creditsClass Size: 75

Module manager: Scott McLaughlin
Email: s.mclaughlin@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The module introduces a variety of approaches to making and composing music from a range of traditions from the past fifty years, including new concert music, experimental popular music, and electronic music. Students will encounter a wide repertoire of musics from artists working in these and other related areas, and will create new work for instruments, electronic media, or a mixture of both, in response to the ideas and methods studied.

Objectives

The module introduces you to a wide range of recent approaches to making and composing music, from multiple traditions, considering how and why you might make use of these approaches in your own creative work. You will demonstrate your learning through the creation of new work, reflecting on and contextualising what you have done in an accompanying commentary.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Deploy fundamental approaches to the creation of music

2. Communicate creative ideas in ways appropriate to writing and making music

Skills Learning Outcomes
3. Independently locate, assess, and reference relevant creative work

4. Reflect on your own learning, achievement, and personal/professional development

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Seminar	10	2.00	20.00
Independent online learning hours			30.00
Private study hours			150.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will regularly undertake practical exercises in class time which point towards their final submission, receiving regular formative feedback from staff on in-progress work.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	ca. 5m creative musical output, submitted as score, fixed media, or mixed media, with accompanying 500–1000-word commentary	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 15/02/2024

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