Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

MUS 421 — 20th Century Compositional Techniques

MUS department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• construct tone row and its various inversions
• develop the skills to utilise different 20th Century compositional devices; and
• analyse works of masters of 20th Century composition

Course contents

Survey of the various processes of musical composition in the present era, using atonality, serialism, 12-tone, chance, electronic and computer techniques, among others. Examination of some works of the major composers of this century, such as Bartok, Stravinsky, Schonberg, Berg, Webern, Dallapiccola, etc.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study MUS 421.

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