M-JP-COM4

Practical Classes

17

1

30

One 50-minute lesson per week

25 hours

451 hours

Admitted to the ArtEZ Jazz & Pop Composition main subject year 4.

See Competencies Matrix.

Further developing artistic and technical skills.
Developing an individual composition style.
Organizing and leading a sixty-minute final exam performance.

Students may choose to follow the module Harmony at the Piano for Composing 4.
The module Choir Conducting teaches students to effectively conduct rehearsals and performances of their own compositions.
Electives such as Music Technology, Music for Images, Video etc, (see the Curriculum Overview) aim to improve the student's understanding of digital media, which enhances their artistic and technical contributions to multidisciplinary collaborations.
The module Professional Orientation teaches students the general skills and knowledge needed to build and maintain a professional practice as composer/arranger.

COMPOSITION/ARRANGEMENT TECHNIQUE:
At the start of module, the student writes an outline for the final exam concert. The contents of this concert are entirely up to the student, on the condition that arrangements of existing pieces make up no more than 50% of the final exam concert. The performance program is entirely aimed at investigating and solving specific artistic and technical issues raised during the composition of the final exam pieces.
ANALYSIS AND TRANSCRIPTION:
The performance program is entirely aimed at investigating and solving specific artistic and technical issues raised during the composition of the final exam pieces.
INSTRUMENTATION/ORCHESTRATION:
The performance program is entirely aimed at investigating and solving specific artistic and technical issues raised during the composition of the final exam pieces.
REPERTOIRE/PRACTICAL:
Discussing self-composed pieces. At the start of module, the student writes an outline for the final exam concert. The contents of this concert are entirely up to the student, on the condition that arrangements of existing pieces make up no more than 50% of the final exam concert.

Individual lessons and group lessons, which are also attended by students from different years of the main course.
Occasionally attending classes by other ArtEZ composition instructors (Alex Manassen, Jan-Bas Bollen, teachers of the Media Music department).
Occasionally attending classes in which instructors in choreography, theater or film address composed pieces.

Selected media that aid in investigating and solving specific artistic and technical issues raised during the composition of the final exam pieces.

Composing and arranging the sixty minutes of music for the final exam concert.

Assessment by the main subject instructor at the end of each semester.

Generally, the criteria are: consistency, efficiency, economy of means, practicality, instrinsic persuasiveness, richness, balance, intelligence, motivation, inventiveness, stylistic awareness, imagination, reflection (analysis, presentation), timing, authenticity, diversity, and multidisciplinary diversity.

The student has completed this module if being awarded a minimum grade of 5.5 at the end of the second semester.

At the end of both semesters, the instructor fills out an assessment form designed specifically for this module. Assessment is comprised of a verbal evaluation and a concluding grade. The instructor reviews this assessment with the student during the first subsequent lesson. Assessment at the end of the autumn semester is formative and expressed in terms of satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It indicates a student's progress in this module. No ECs are awarded and there is no resit. Modules can only be absolved, and ECs awarded, after the end of the spring semester.

See the Education and Assessment Plan.