Harmony II: Techniques for Composing Contemporary Music

MUSC X 403.53

Deepen your understanding of harmony with an exploration of contemporary music starting with the French Impressionists of the 19th century and ending with current composers. In this course, you will create your own compositions informed by the lessons learned from great composers.

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Summer
In-Person
Starting at $785.00
As few as 11 weeks
4.0

What you can learn.

  • Cover the masters of contemporary scoring such as Stravinsky, Glass, Adams, and more
  • Delve into complex harmonic topics such as modality, tonal ambiguity, serialism, modern scales, and more
  • Work on your own compositions utilizing these concepts
  • Expand on your previous harmonic training to explore the deviations and complexities of modern harmony

About this course:

In this course, you learn the techniques of twentieth/twenty-first century harmony while also applying the theoretical concepts to your own compositions. You are exposed to a wide variety of modern-era harmonic practices, starting with an introduction to the French Impressionists of the late nineteenth century and then moving forward to current trends of today. Instruction consists of three stages: establishing a foundation in contemporary harmonic techniques, studying the music scores of the great masters who demonstrate these techniques, and creating your own compositions by emulating what you have learned. Harmonic concepts include: modality and tonal ambiguity of the impressionists, total chromaticism, free atonality, serialism, bitonality, modern scales, pandiatonicism, tone clusters and sound mass, minimalism, neo-romanticism and more. Scores studied include works by Debussy, Ravel, Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky, Ligeti, Penderecki, Reich, Adams, Glass, Part and Whitacre. Utilizing many of the concepts learned, you work on your own compositions and study scores that use many of these harmonic techniques.
Prerequisites
MUSC X 403.52 Harmony I: Crash Course in Composing for Tonal Music, or consent of the instructor.

Summer 2024 Schedule

Date & Time
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Saturday 9:30AM - 12:30PM PT
Future Offering (Opens April 29, 2024 12:00:00 AM)
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Instructor: Steve Rothstein
398401
Fee:
$785.00
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Location: UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
Notes
Enrollment limited; early enrollment advised.

Internet access required. Materials required.

Refund Deadline
No refunds after July 12, 2024
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
Required course reader available at Lu Valle Commons bookstore.
Schedule
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Sat Jun 29, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Jul 6, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Jul 13, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Jul 20, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Jul 27, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Aug 3, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Aug 10, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Aug 17, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Aug 24, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Aug 31, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center
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Sat Sep 7, 2024
9:30AM PT - 12:30PM PT
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood
UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center

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