Music and Narrative

CMWT-545

This course will examine the history of dramatic music in the musical theater canon, analyzing a selection of scores that demonstrate effective storytelling. Students will focus on strategies within their own compositional voice to support the narrative they are writing for their Culminating Experience musical. Elements to explore in focusing on how music supports narrative will include character themes, transforming motifs to support dramatic events, finding your compositional voice in different styles, musical transitions and underscoring, accompaniment figures, constructing extended musical sequences, and the composer as actor.

Credits
2
Prerequisites
None
Required Of
CMWT graduate students
Electable By
CMWT graduate students
Semesters Offered
Fall
Location
New York City
Department
CMMT
Course Chair
Julianne Wick Davis
Taught By
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