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2011/2 Provisional Module Catalogue - UNDER CONSTRUCTION & SUBJECT TO CHANGE
 Module Code: CMT3001 Module Title: APPLIED MUSIC 2
Module Provider: Music and Sound Recording Short Name: CMT3001
Level: HE3 Module Co-ordinator: MORRIS P Mr (Music Record)
Number of credits: 15 Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
 
Module Availability
Semester 1
Assessment Pattern
Coursework 1: Essay - 25%
Coursework 2: Practical assignment (TV theme music) - 75%

A weighted aggregate mark of 40%
Module Overview
This module extends the knowledge you acquired in HE2 Applied Music, in this module writing music to a brief for TV, including themes, beds and stings. However, this module uses Semiotic theory as an alternative way of planning your composition
Prerequisites/Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: HE2 Applied Music 1
Module Aims
The aims of this module are to:

• Develop an understanding of semiotic theory as it applies to music.
• Enable you to use semiotics to define appropriate genres, compositional methods etc.
• Explore compositional skills including re-composition, writing transitions, stings and beds.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module you should be able to:

• Plan a composition, using semiotics to influence your choice of methods and techniques.
• Describe how the TV industry expects composers to deliver material.
• Outline the main characteristics of the building blocks of composition for TV.
• Create a theme set for a given genre of TV programme.
Transferable skills:
• Give and receive information and ideas clearly, and modify your material in response to group or tutor feedback.

Module Content
The following is an indication of the likely content of the module:

• Semiotic theory.
• Mapping of aspects of semiotics onto compositional techniques.
• Analysis of existing TV programmes and how the music affects programme genre.

Methods of Teaching/Learning
• Lectures
• Student presentations
• Workshops
• Guided reading
• Analysis of existing multimedia
• Lectures from practising industry specialists
Selected Texts/Journals
Compulsory reading
Tagg, P, 1999: “Introductory notes to the Semiotics of Music”http://www.tagg.org/xpdfs/semiotug.pdf, accessed 30/10/10

Recommended reading
Beauchamp, R, 2005: Designing Sound for Animation (Oxford: Focal Press)
Donnelly, Kevin, 2005: The spectre of sound: music in film and television (Los Angeles: University of California Press)
Tagg, P, 1979: Kojak – 50 seconds of Television Music (Göteberg: Musikvetenskapliga inst., Göteborgs university)

Last Updated
11.04.11