This course enhances students’ music technology skills by introducing them to digital music production software such as Logic, Cubase, and ProTools. Students will also learn about basic production procedures and the hardware used in sound recording. In addition to studio recording and production, the course also covers live sound reinforcement and mixing.
This course introduces students to the use of professional Music Notation Software such as Sibelius and Finale. Students will learn to create musical scores, extract performance parts for single or multiple voices, create graphics, as well as MIDI files.
This course introduces students’ to the various procedures in analysing music in relation to moving images. Students are exposed to key musical terms through which to examine film scores and will study the soundtracks of a number of classic productions in the history of film music.
This course traces the evolution of film music through early film to present day cinema, examining both African films as well as International and Hollywood films and film composers. Students will learn how sound is used in animation, trailers, horror films, among others, and the key relationships between directors and composers.
This course continues to expose students to the styles, aesthetics and cultural relevance of art music from the Romantic period to the present. The development of African art music during this time period will be discussed. Students will deepen their analytical skills as pieces by both Western and African composers are scrutinised.
The course exposes students to the styles, aesthetics and cultural relevance of art music as practiced mainly in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Classical period. It sharpens students’ skills in the analysis of selected pieces from those periods.
As a continuation of MUD 327, this course focuses on strengthening students’ skills in compositional processes, exploring medium compositional forms and more complex melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic structures.
This course explores ways of thinking about and organising basic compositional elements such as melody, harmony, rhythm, common practice of small structures, instrumental colour, as well as developing skills of score preparation and analytical listening.
In this course students will study and engage in the analysis of a number of musical forms such as the fugue, theme and variations, sonata form, among others. The course will expose students to procedures how to analyse tonal music such as Schenkerian analysis and functional analysis.
This course builds on the knowledge and skills students acquired in music theory in their first two years of study. It will introduce them to the art of countermelodies, secondary functions of chords and further their knowledge in modulations.
