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 3 is intended for students particularly interested in composition, improvisation, or other creative uses of musical language, and for the refinement of their skills in composition, improvisation, theory and aural.  It develops advanced skills and concepts in these areas through a mixture of creative and analytic work.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
1. Hear, notate, describe and create more advanced elements of musical structure: pitch, melody, harmony, counterpoint, rhythm, form and timbre.
2. Demonstrate a grasp of moderately sophisticated musical language and form as composer, improviser, or analyst.
3. Use near-professional level standards in the presentation of musical works or ideas
4. Write about music using sophisticated theoretical concepts and language

1. A portfolio of six exercises which may be aural, theoretical and/or compositional and may include in-class listening exercises (40%) [learning outcome 1,3,4]
2. A major portfolio of 2-3 compositions (or one large-scale work) with 750-word exegesis OR 3-4 assessed improvisations with 750-word exegesis OR a 3000-word analytic project (60%) [learning outcomes 1-4]

130 hours of total student learning time made up from:

a) 48 hours of contact:

1. 24 hours of core workshops
2. 24 hours of extension workshops

b) 82 hours of independent student work

Prerequisites: MUSI1105 Music Creative Practice 1 and MUSI1106 Music Creative Practice 2

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