Music 321 - Seminar: Songwriting

This seminar is a practicum on songwriting. Through weekly creative assignments, in-class workshops and listening, students develop and strengthen their skills as musicians, performers and lyricists. Students try several songwriting and compositional techniques, and create and finalize work to be presented in a final concert. Students should have a basic working knowledge of music notation and theory, including harmonic analysis. Prerequisites: MUS 110 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12. Juniors and seniors only. Instructor permission required.

[CE] JR/SR only; Prereq: MUS 110