The Creative Practice courses are a series of four courses integrating a broad suite of skills that underpins the study of the various languages of music - classical, jazz, contemporary and cross-cultural. Creative Practice 2 is compulsory for all BMus students.  It introduces students to fundamental skills and concepts in composition, theory, analysis, aural improvisation, and music education that they will require to complete the BMus and be musically literate musicians. 

By the end of the course you will be able to:

1.  Hear, notate, describe and create fundamental to intermediate elements of musical structure: pitch, melody, harmony, rhythm, form and timbre.
2. Create original small-scale musical works as a composer or improviser
3. Observe, discuss and evaluate aspects of music education philosophy and practice. 

1. A portfolio of six exercises which may be aural, theoretical and/or compositional and may include in-class listening exercises (40%) [learning outcome 1]
2. Write a short series of lessons plans for a particular learning context and relate the plan to one or more educational methods. (30%) [learning outcome 3]
3. A portfolio of 2-3 small compositions OR two assessed improvisations (30%) [learning outcome 1-3]

130 hours of total student learning time made up from:

a) 48 hours of contact:

1. 24 hours of core workshops
2. 12 hours of extension workshops
3. 12 hours of education workshops

b) 82 hours of independent student work

MUSI1105 Music Creative Practice 1

MUSI1105 Music Creative Practice 1

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