Music 591VM - S-Music Comp for Visual Media

This course is designed primarily for MM Jazz Composition and Arranging students. It is open as an elective to graduate students in other areas who possess a thorough knowledge of composition and orchestration, and software notation skills. This is a project based course on writing music for visual media. It involves the study of the work of industry standard compositions in three visual media areas, TV commercials, cartoons, and film. Students will analyze music for its emotional and visual impact and compose music for film/video projects.This class is dependent on the student ability to use Sibelius 4 or above notation software. Purchase of the software is mandatory. Finale 2007 and above is acceptable. Experience with Protools, Logic or Digital Performer software is desirable. Class work will take the form of three projects, a research presentation, readings and discussions. The final project will involve the use of virtual (and studio recorded real instruments where possible) in a cross platform integration of Sibelius/Finale, MIDI/Virtual Sounds and Logic.

Open to Graduate students only. This class is dependent on the student ability to use Sibelius 4 or above notation software. Purchase of the software is mandatory. Finale 2007 and above is acceptable. Experience with Protools, Logic or Digital Performer software is desirable.