MUS 462B

Seminar in Contemporary Composition and Performance

Units: 1.5, Hours: 0-3

This seminar/workshop provides intensive professional training for performers who work together with composers in the creation, performance and production of new music. Composers will create new works composed specifically for the performers registered simultaneously in MUS 462A. Training in contemporary notation and performance practices, extended techniques, instrumentation, analysis, conducting techniques, communication skills and concert production. The final project is a festival. Open to third- and fourth-year music students.

Note: Taught together with 562B (Graduate Seminar in Contemporary Composition and Performance).

Prerequisites: Third-year standing and 201B, or permission of the instructor.

Undergraduate course in Music offered by the School of Music in the Faculty of Fine Arts.