Excerpt from the score for student composition Limit One Per Cussion by Joy Perkinson. See the projects page for the complete score, and additional scores and recordings of student compositions. (Image courtesy of Joy Perkinson. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Peter Child
MIT Course Number
21M.351 / 21M.505
As Taught In
Fall 2008
Level
Undergraduate / Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course features downloadable mp3 music files on the listening and projects pages.
Course Description
This course features directed composition of larger forms of original writing involving voices and/or instruments. It includes a weekly seminar in composition for the presentation and discussion of work in progress. Students are expected to produce at least one substantive work, performed in public, by the end of the term. Contemporary compositions and major works from 20th-century music literature are studied.