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| Module Availability |
| Semester 1 |
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| Assessment Pattern |
Coursework 1: Essay - 25%
Coursework 2: Practical assignment (TV theme music) - 75%
A weighted aggregate mark of 40%
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| 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 |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
| Pre-requisite: HE2 Applied Music 1 |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
• Lectures
• Student presentations
• Workshops
• Guided reading
• Analysis of existing multimedia
• Lectures from practising industry specialists
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| 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)
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| Last Updated |
| 11.04.11 |
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