CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC Course Title: MU 378 Special

UNIVERSITY, POMONA Projects

Date of Preparation: 8/26/98

Prepared by: Stan Gibb, edited by

Donald Ambroson

Revised by: David Kopplin, 2007

COURSE OUTLINE

I. Catalogue Description

MU 378 Special Projects (1)

Application of principles of composition and/or production. Jury examination at the end

of each quarter. Total credit limited to 6 units. Prerequisite: MU 122

II. Required Background or Experience

Prerequisite: MU 122

III. Expected Outcomes

The student will complete project, as outlined in writing and agreed to with instructor,

within 10 weeks.

IV. Text and Readings

Scores, listening assignments, texts and readings assigned on an individual basis. (may include:)

Ellis Kohs. Musical Form. (Atlanta: Houghton Mifflin, 1976)

George Perle. Serial Composition and Atonality. 3rd Edition. (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1972)

Knud Jeppesen (translated by Glen Haydon). Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style

of the Sixteenth Century. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1939)

Ernst Krenek. Studies in Counterpoint. (New York: G. Schirmer, 1940)

V. Minimum Student Materials

Manuscript paper, pencil and eraser.

Computer access with internet and notation software

Access to listening facilities or equipment

VI. Minimum College Facilities

Access to listening facilities, access to computer with internet access and notation

software.

VII. Course Outline

This course is a series of lessons and projects designed to increase competence and

mastery in composition and/or production.

VIII. Instructional Methods

Taking student goals as a musician into consideration – and within the requirements of

her/his degree program – this 10-week project is designed by student in consultation with

instructor and student’s advisor.

IX. Evaluation of Outcomes

1. Each lesson is graded individually; course grade is based on individual lesson grades

(50%)

2. meeting goals set for the quarter (50%).

3. Juried final