Course Overview and Objectives
This course invites domestic and international scholars and experts to deliver special lectures at the Institute of Music. It aims to enrich students’ knowledge and perspectives in the fields of music composition, performance, research, and other related disciplines, while inspiring multifaceted exploration of music from technical, intellectual, and critical perspectives.
Students are divided into groups according to instrument type, with instruction provided by one to three instructors.
Course Overview and Objectives
This course centers on two main themes—performance practice and compositional exercises—and serves as a platform for collaboration and communication between composers and performers.
The course primarily explores the possibilities of instrumental sound production through the interpretation of both traditional and contemporary performance techniques, while also examining how these sounds can be applied in actual composition and performance. Course content includes:
Course Overview and Objectives
Through the performance perspectives and modes of thinking of different instruments, this course strengthens students’ experience in performing duo sonatas through practical work and discussion, while helping them establish a reasonable interpretive style.
At the same time, by engaging with this most concise form of chamber music performance, the course trains students’ understanding and expressive ability in chamber music, bringing them closer to the spirit of chamber music education emphasized by the Performance Division of the Institute of Music.
Course Overview and Objectives
Throughout music history, advances in music technology have continually influenced the content and presentation of musical works. This course focuses on advanced programming in Max/MSP/Jitter for audio and visual applications, guiding students to understand various theories of digital synthesis and to develop the ability to program their own digital effects, synthesizers, and related tools.
The course aims to enable students to further apply these technologies in the creation of sound works and music, or in real-time interactive music. By integrating traditional instruments with digital technology, students will explore new artistic possibilities that combine tradition and technology.
Course Overview and Objectives
This course is centered on Western tonal music. In the early stage of the course, instruction begins with the integration of tonal harmonic functions, using repertoire from different periods and styles as the basis for discussion. The goal is for students to understand the theory and function of tonal harmony, and to further apply this understanding to analysis and interpretation in performance.
The course consists of three parts. In the early stage, all tonal chords and the functions of harmonic connections will be introduced, with many short works used as examples to help students understand the relationship between harmonic analysis and interpretation. In the middle stage, the course will further explore more advanced works, which may include excerpts from works students are currently performing, and repertoire discussions will be assigned according to students’ major instruments. In the later stage, the course will examine selected works from the post-tonal period in order to strengthen students’ basic knowledge and breadth of understanding of post-tonal music, and to help them quickly grasp the concepts and interpretive directions of different types of non-tonal music.
Each class includes two stages: lecture-based instruction, and score reading and performance discussion. Through these activities, the course seeks to uncover possible interpretive approaches in performance for performers, as well as analytical readings for composers.
Course Overview and Objectives
This course is a digital literacy course designed specifically for students in the Institute of Music and for students with some basic musical background. It aims to guide learners in building the necessary digital literacy by understanding the impact of digital technology on human culture.
Using the field of music as an example, the course enables students to experience the dramatic transformation from the analog to the digital age, and to understand the profound influence of technology on various aspects of music, including recording, learning, creation, dissemination, academic research, and performance. It also addresses the new concepts and opportunities that accompany these developments, explores connections between contemporary technological knowledge and traditional music performance or composition, and discusses the rise of artificial intelligence.
The course combines theoretical lectures with experimental practice. Students will not only acquire foundational knowledge and literacy in digital technology, but also further develop practical command of relevant digital tools and skills through hands-on work.
Course Overview and Objectives
This course studies orchestration techniques in Western orchestral works from the Baroque period to the twentieth century, with attention to different styles and instrumental forces. Students will become familiar with the roles, functions, and technical applications of various instruments, including strings, winds, and percussion, in ensemble music.
The course aims to strengthen students’ experience in writing orchestral music and to develop their ability to compose orchestral works.
Course Overview and Objectives
With the Institute of Music’s semesterly composition presentation, Concert of IMU “Tunes of Bamboo” as its goal, this course helps students in music composition and performance develop mutual understanding of the compositional concepts and techniques behind the works, while also exploring performance practice and planning the stage technology required for presentation.