What courses are there in the Composition Department of the Conservatory of Music?

Brief introduction to the main courses of the Composition Department of the Conservatory of Music (the curriculum arrangement of different colleges is slightly different);

1, Composition-This course is a compulsory course for students majoring in composition. Through the study of this course, students can master Chinese and foreign traditional and modern composition skills systematically, comprehensively and skillfully; It is required to create various forms and genres of music works with national temperament and spirit of the times. It can make students' artistic personality and creativity develop well. The teaching period of this course is five years. The first and second years focus on strict basic training, and the third to fifth years focus on free creation. The form of this class is mainly individual classes, and teachers can arrange group classes or discussions as needed.

2. Harmony A-This course is one of the compulsory professional basic courses for students of composition department. This course lasts for two semesters, and the first semester of Senior One begins. The purpose of teaching is to cultivate students' good harmony thinking ability, skilled harmony writing and analysis ability, and lay a good foundation for further learning other composition technology theories and composition classes. The duration of this course is one year. There are 2 hours of group classes every week, and some individuals change classes. The basic content of this course is the chromatic harmony technique of big and small tones, and the modal harmony is taught in combination with the national style of harmony. In teaching, the principle of integrating theory with practice should be implemented, and students should be trained in theory, analysis, writing and keyboard, so that harmony class can really play the role of "basic course". This course adopts the teaching forms and methods of lecture analysis, four-part writing and keyboard practice. Teaching content: harmony of large and small chromatic systems. Specifically, it includes maladjustment and maladjustment of mold advance; Near relationship modulation, far relationship modulation, modulation simulation; Chord external sound and melody music texture writing; Mode alternation and tone modulation by alternating chords; Change chords and tone sandhi; Tonality layout and comprehensive harmony analysis of works.

3. counterpoint and fugue a-this course is one of the compulsory professional basic courses for students of composition department. The duration of this course is * * * three semesters, two semesters are counterpoint and one semester is fugue. School starts in the third semester (the first semester of grade two). The teaching purpose of counterpoint course is to cultivate students' good polyphonic thinking ability, analytical ability of different polyphonic styles and skillful writing ability. Through the teaching of polyphonic music writing techniques and the analysis of polyphonic literature at home and abroad, especially through systematic and strict writing training, students' good polyphonic thinking ability, analytical ability, understanding ability and skillful writing ability are cultivated. This course has 2 class hours every week, with individual changes. This course adopts the teaching form and method of combining teaching, analysis and phonetic writing. The teaching contents include: classification and counterpoint; Single counterpoint and complex counterpoint of two, three and four voices and small polyphonic works of two, three and four voices. Course selection criteria: [Harmony AI, II] has been completed. Graduation standard: proficient in two to four parts comparison method, imitation writing skills and various counterpoint skills; Be able to write more than two small polyphonic works as needed; Be able to analyze general polyphonic techniques.

Fugue writing is a compulsory course for students majoring in composition. The purpose of teaching is to cultivate students' ability to analyze and write fugues. The study period of this course is one semester. There are 2 class hours in group class every week, and personal topic change class 1 class hour. This course adopts the teaching form and method of combining teaching, analysis and writing. The teaching content includes: the theme of fugue, presentation part, middle part, reproduction part, different types of fugue, the application of fugue, other polyphonic music and so on. Course selection criteria: completed [para-A] course. Graduation criteria: be able to accurately analyze fugue and other complex polyphonic music. Write three fugues in two or four voices. Complete the writing of three fugues with single theme according to the proposition within the specified time.

4. Musical Form and Work Analysis A-This course is one of the compulsory professional basic courses for students of composition department. This course lasts for three semesters. The starting time is the second semester (the second semester of senior one). Musical form course is a technical and theoretical course to master the structural rules of musical works. This course will enable students to master some independent methods to analyze the structure of music works, so as to help students analyze and learn Chinese and foreign famous works, master the music structure with different characteristics and apply it to practice (composition). The course content includes foreign parts: classic works in the late baroque era; Works in the mature period of classicism; The Romantic Period's works; Classic works of the twentieth century; China part: China traditional folk works; Works with China's national characteristics and spirit of the times since the May 4th Movement. This course adopts the teaching mode of collective teaching by teachers and collective discussion by students (teacher guidance). There are written homework after class, and the teacher corrects it collectively in the discussion class. Course selection criteria: Harmony A-I has been completed.

5. Orchestral A-This course is one of the compulsory professional basic courses for students of composition department. This course lasts for four semesters, three of which are western orchestral music and one is China national orchestral music. School starts in the fourth semester (the second semester of grade two). Orchestral law course takes the combination art of different instruments in modern western orchestras as the main research topic, and also studies various instruments and their combination art in China National Orchestra. The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the sound and timbre characteristics and playing techniques of various musical instruments, the basic laws of various musical instrument combinations and the artistic effects produced, and gradually master the musical instrument creation techniques of different orchestral arrangements. This course selects a large number of classic works and excellent examples at home and abroad. By analyzing the physical characteristics of various acoustic phenomena and the characteristics of creative ideas and techniques reflected by different works, it broadens students' horizons and inspires students to summarize the basic laws and various special expressions of orchestral combination art from the content. At the same time, we should pay attention to the differences of orchestral orchestration styles in different historical periods and different artistic schools, and strive to make students establish a more systematic and complete knowledge structure in the historical development of orchestral law, classical literature and writing techniques. This course is taught in the form of collective large class teaching and individual curriculum reform, with a lot of analysis and writing exercises, emphasizing the combination of theory and practice. The basic contents of this course include: the development history of orchestration, the basic knowledge of acoustics, the performance of musical instruments (instrumental methods), the art of instrumental combination (orchestration), the analysis of classical orchestral works, and the practice of adapting Chinese and foreign piano music (or fragments) into the score of western orchestral music or national orchestral music. Course selection criteria: Complete Harmony A-I and II, Polyphony A-I and Form A-I and II.

6. Modern Composition Techniques-The course of modern composition techniques is a theoretical course of composition techniques with modern works in the 20th century as the main research object. This course is one of the compulsory professional basic courses for students of composition department. The duration of this course is two semesters, and the starting time is the fifth semester (the first semester of Grade Three). Since the middle of last century, there has been a profound revolution in the field of composition technology. Especially after the Second World War, due to the social changes, the development of the times and the emergence of many new technologies, especially influenced by other arts, the development of western music has entered a new historical period, and the thinking mode, aesthetic thinking and creative techniques of some European avant-garde composers have undergone fundamental changes. As a result, many creative schools have emerged. All these have had a great influence on today's music creation. This lesson attempts to reveal the artistic characteristics, aesthetic ideas and specific creative techniques of modern music through in-depth and detailed analysis of a large number of classical documents of modern music. In order to be familiar with the clues and styles of modern music creation and the development of various styles, students can have a clear understanding of modern music creation, development and the latest creative techniques and trends in the world today. Broaden students' horizons, improve their writing ability and promote their innovative ability. This course covers the composition techniques, creative styles and creative ideas of modern music works of various styles and schools in the 20th century. Course selection criteria: complete [harmony A-I, II], complete [polyphony A-I, II], complete [form A-I-III].