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MSC 412

Composition VIII: Graduation Project

MSC 412 is the capstone where you finish and defend the large-scale piece you began in Composition VII, treating the orchestra not as a list of instruments but as a timbral medium you've learned to shape with intention. Most of your time goes into the score itself—roughly 125 hours on the project alongside weekly studio meetings, a portfolio, and three internal assessments—culminating in a final jury where you defend the work's technique, orchestration, and intellectual stance in proper professional vocabulary. It's the moment your training as a composer has to read as a coherent personal language, not just a collection of techniques.

Credit4ECTS6.5FacultyFaculty of Music and Performing ArtsBölümMusicPreMSC 411

Değerlendirme 100% — 4 adım

10%
60%
5%
25%
Presentations Portfolio Presentation 10%
Project Final Piece (Orchestra) 60%
In-class attendance Seminar Attendence 5%
Portfolio Portfolio 25%

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 1
The orchestral sound // Writing for orchestral powers vis-à-vis the music of last decades
Hafta 2
The idea // Comprehensibility and clarity • Instrumentation and form
Hafta 3
Intention - Notation - Klang // Instrumentation and timbral result • Problems of timbral conveyance
Hafta 4
Timbral structure // Allocation of tone colors upon pitches • Timbral layers - Tone mixtures - Combination of tone mixtures • Denseness of timbral structure • Timbral structure and dynamics
Hafta 5
1st Assessment
Hafta 6
Timbral space, surface, and groups // Space, real and imagined • Surface, as result of heterogeneous and homogeneous occurrences • Timbral groups
Hafta 7
Timbral economy // Timbral austerity • Handling of timbral masses: Timbre blocks - Individualization and differentiation - Statistical distribution • Balance between austerity and amassing
Hafta 8
Mimesis // Intramusical mimesis: Substitution - Percussive deployment of melodic instruments - Melodic deployment of percussive instruments - Music on music • Extramusical mimesis: Onomatopoeia - Transmitting extramusical motion into the musical - Gesture and expression - Instrument as symbol conveyor
Hafta 9
2nd Assessment
Hafta 10
Human voice as element of instrumentation // Phonetic aspect: Vocalic tone colors - Experimental completion through consonantal and noise-like tone colors - Phonetics and expression • Semantic aspect • Phonetic-semantic hybrids: Composed texts with de facto mere phonetic effect and with phonetic-semantically flowing transitions
Hafta 11
The aspect of virtuosity // Soloistic virtuosity • Choristic virtuosity
Hafta 12
Extra-European influences // Timbral imitation • Timbral enrichment • Rapprochement of different timbral worlds • Metamorphosis of different timbral worlds
Hafta 13
Timbral extension and transformation with electroacoustic means // Timbral extension through addition of recorded media: Media with electronic sounds - Media with instrumental, vocal, and environmental sounds • Direct transformation of instrumental and vocal sounds with means of sound régie and live-electronics: Transformation of loudness, pitch, tone color, articulation, reverberation, and timbral perspective
Hafta 14
3rd Assessment

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Geçmiş GPA dağılımı 15 dönem · ort. 3.00

DönemCourse CPA
2024-2025 Spring 2.30 1 sec · 1 öğr
2023-2024 Fall 3.70 1 sec · 1 öğr
2023-2024 Spring 4.00 2 sec · 2 öğr
2022-2023 Fall 1.50 2 sec · 2 öğr
2022-2023 Summer 2.00 1 sec · 1 öğr
2022-2023 Spring 0.50 2 sec · 2 öğr
2021-2022 Fall 3.70 1 sec · 1 öğr
2020-2021 Spring 3.15 2 sec · 2 öğr
2019-2020 Spring 4.00 1 sec · 1 öğr
2018-2019 Spring 3.70 1 sec · 1 öğr

Aggregate course GPA — Bilkent STARS'tan public data. Hoca-bazlı per-section detayı için STARS evaluation report →. Öğrenci anket cevapları KVKK kapsamında defter'de tutulmaz.

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Course Learning Outcomes: Course Learning Outcome Assessment Able to maintain stylistic consistency in a large scale composition. Portfolio Presentation Able to notate compositions in a professional manner and able to prepare scores and parts that are publishable in quality Portfolio Presentation Able to write a piece of music that demonstrates skills acquired during studies. Portfolio Presentation Able to use the techniques, skills and musical knowledge at professional level to compose original

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