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Music & Vocal

Music Composition

Creative composition training in melody, harmony, structure and original music development

Each class
60 minutes
Term
10 sessions
Entry
AMEB Grade 5 or above in at least one instrument, or equivalent
A songwriting class: two students at a stage piano and keyboard at the front of the room, the rest watching from tables, with melody, lyrics, chords, structure and expression listed on the whiteboard

Music composition combines imagination, musical thinking and sound expression. Students develop theory, rhythm, melody and harmony while learning to turn ideas into structured, original compositions.

The course takes students from an initial musical idea to a completed original piece, building creativity, aural skills and musical literacy along the way. Selected works can also be professionally recorded and produced into a finished music video (MV).

  • From Music Theory to an Original Composition
  • From an Original Piece to a Finished Music Video

A term contains

What you actually do

  • Music theory, rhythm and pitch
  • Melody writing
  • Harmony and structure
  • Improvised idea to finished piece
  • Collaborative writing
  • An original piece presented at the end of term

Taught by

Who runs the room

  • Joshua Dai, music composition teacher

    Joshua Dai

    Music composition

    Piano Performance graduate, University of Melbourne

    Full biography

Questions

Before you write

How long is each Music Composition class?
60 minutes, at Mirror Arts Education in Surrey Hills and Glen Waverley.
Where does Music Composition lead?
To the stage. Students in Music Composition work towards Born to Fly.