Extend techniques for composing music

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Self Assessment Survey
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Moodle Outcomes
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Registered Training Organisations
Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver CUSMCP601A, 'Extend techniques for composing music'.
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Elements and Performance Criteria

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Set professional development goals

1. In consultation with appropriate personnel, listen to recordings of own compositions in the context of setting professional development goals

2. Discuss factors that contribute to excellence in music composition and incorporate them into professional development goals as appropriate

3. Listen to the work of master composers and consider techniques that could be applied to own practice

4. Establish criteria for monitoring and evaluating the success of own skill development

5. Develop a practice plan that incorporates realistic goals as a basis for refining composition techniques

6. Implement networking strategies to develop relationships that will assist in the process of enhancing own professional practice

Use personal practice time to refine techniques

7. Seek feedback on and critically review a sample of own compositions in terms of how well they fulfilled their respective briefs

8. Experiment with ways of enhancing those compositions to produce better outcomes

9. Use opportunities to discuss revised compositions with peers and/or mentors and incorporate their critical feedback into continuous improvement strategies

Compose music

10. Seek music compositional work that extends the range of own practice and helps to build confidence in own ability to respond to creative challenges

11. In response to briefs, generate a range of musical ideas or starting points and experiment with options for realising them

12. Discuss options with appropriate personnel and refine ideas as required

13. Apply a full range of compositional techniques to organise musical elements into working versions of musical pieces

14. Listen to work in progress with appropriate personnel and seek feedback on how well compositions meet creative and technical requirements

15. Incorporate ideas and suggestions into final compositions

16. As required, attend rehearsals or performance workshops where compositions are being played and make any necessary adjustments to compositions

17. Present all compositions in required format by agreed deadline

Evaluate own skill development

18. Compare work against previous compositions to assess development of techniques and ideas

19. Evaluate level of improvement in own compositional techniques against agreed criteria

20. Seek feedback on compositions from appropriate personnel and incorporate their suggestions and ideas into own continuous improvement strategies


Qualifications and Skillsets

CUSMCP601A appears in the following qualifications: