Music Composition Assignments — You choose. William Wieland
Each assignment is due before class. Save your music as an mp3 file and place it in D2L > Communications > Discussions. (We cannot listen to everyone’s music during class every week.) Either record acoustic instruments or export your music from a computer program.
After class, listen to the music of your classmates and offer at least two comments:
  1. Particular Praise — Identify amy artistic merit.
  2. Constructive Criticism — Offer a suggestion to improve the work.
Note: Short pieces are about 1 minute long. (Many assignments ask for 3 short pieces.)
Aleatoric Assignment

Bad Music Assignment

Bitonality/Polytonality Assignment

Constraints Assignment (Do early.)

Contrast Assignment 		  Drawing/Prose Assignment

Extended Techniques Assignment

Lennon/McCartney Assignment

Lyrics Assignment

Musique Concrète Assignment 		  Non-tertian Chords Assignment

Program Music Assignment

Rhythm Assignment (Do early.)

Variations Assignment

Other Possibilities (untried) — Please offer more ideas.
AI Assignment (incomplete) — I definitely want to do this.
Microtones Assignment (incomplete)

Pastiche Assignment (incomplete)

Utilitarian Assignment (incomplete)

Fight Song — Something short to be played to excite the crowds at a sporting event. It would have upbeat energy and possibly instructions for spectators to do mass movement or shouting together.