COMP 203 - Orchestration

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
The purpose is to develop facility in writing for various instrumental combinations. The study includes: comparison of techniques of orchestration (18th-20th centuries), practice writing and arranging for the different choirs of the modern orchestra, orchestrating complete compositions; the graphic aspect of and notational problems in more recent music.
Instructor: A. Helgeson
Prerequisites & Notes
Consent of instructor required.
Enrollment Limit: 12.
Prerequisites: MUTH 232; COMP 202

Junior status as a composition major or minor (or College music major, composition emphasis).

Primarily for composition majors.