Teaching Composition - Engaging Students: a big conversation
| Date: | 25 Jan 10 | ||
| Start: | 10:00 | ||
| Finish: | 16:30 | ||
| Venue: | Room CAMG/01, Creative Arts Building | ||
| Host institution: | Department of Music, University of Huddersfield | ||
| Email bookings to: | Barbara Hargreaves palatine@lancaster.ac.uk 01524 592614 | ||
| Cost: | Attendance at this event is free for colleagues in UK higher education. For people outside UK HE there is a charge of £50, though priority will be given to HE colleagues. | ||
Event Description
This event was organised in conjunction with the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield (CeReNeM).
This day event was intended to open out discussion on current approaches and challenges in the field of teaching music composition in Higher Education. The event was framed as a 'big conversation' between participants. It aimed to provide an opportunity for the sharing of ideals, ideas and approaches to pedagogy and an open forum for the discussion of methodological and other concerns.
The morning session presented position papers from invited speakers and formulate and formalise the questions to be discussed in the afternoon. The afternoon session took the form of three discussion groups, which were drawn together at the end of the day. It is hoped that the outcomes will be written up in some way in order to capture and share the thinking that emerged.
Resources
- Adam Moore's presentation.
- Here are the questions you raised on the day.
- Here are the questions we started out with.
- Royal College of Music Centre for Music and Multimedia - The Training and Education of Composers – an international survey. A major survey of composers has been launched by the RCM's Centre for Music and Multimedia. The survey seeks to investigate the appropriateness and effectiveness of training and education opportunities for music composers, both in prospect and retrospect. It will capture the experiences of a large number and wide range of composers and songwriters across Europe and beyond, in order to lobby for better opportunities and resources to study the art and craft of composing, including lifelong learning. Click here to take survey.
- 1st International Biennial of Composition and Music Education, Theme: “Reflection and debate on the new regional musical identities”, Córdoba, Argentina, 1-3 September 2010
Speakers
- John Habron, Senior Lecturer in Music at Coventry University
- Bryn Harrison, CeReNeM, University of Huddersfield
- Jonty Harrison, Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music, University of Birmingham
- Vasco Hexel, Area Leader in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music
- Dorothy Ker, DTI Academic Fellow, Department of Music, University of Sheffield
- Adam Moore, musician, teacher and student, teaching in F.E. and H.E. in Norwich whilst maintaining a semi-professional career performing, writing, recording and engineering. Currently reading for a Ph.D. in Music Education at the Institute of Education, London, under the supervision of Prof. Lucy Green.
Abstracts
- John Habron & Bryn Harrison: A dialogue
- Vasco Hexel: "Mixed messages – Mentoring screen composition students on collaborative film / music projects"
- Dorothy Ker: "Deepening the composition-performance cycle: Music Away Day and Intro Week project" For Composition students, one performance is worth a thousand tutorials in the way that it completes the creative process, while seeding the next one. With 50 first-year students, building play-through workshops into the curriculum is challenging but the alternative would be that the students compose a portfolio of music that is never played. This presentation will discuss the use of an intensive away-day with professional soloists and an Intro Week day of devising performances in groups.
- Adam Moore: "I’ll be taking people through my research into composition tuition. This work focuses on how students respond to their composition assignments, what they think they are learning in so doing, what assumptions remain inherent and unchallenged within this process and how students consider that their tutors are able to help with their creative development. I aim to present some extracts from the pilot study data and look at what it might suggest."
- Jonty Harrison
Directions
The University of Huddersfield's Queensgate campus is situated in Huddersfield town centre and is within walking distance of the railway station.
A free bus provides a regular service between the railway station, bus station and the campus.
Travelling by Car
The campus is close to the M62 (junction 24) and the M1 (junction 38). On-campus parking is limited and it is necessary to reserve car parking spaces. Please inform us if parking is required when booking a place to attend this event. Alternatively, there are two large public car parks close to the campus.