Joseph Klein

Composer • Professor of Composition • Division Chair
  • University of North Texas
  • College of Music
  • Division of Composition Studies

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MUCP 1180/3080 — Beginning/Class Composition I: Course Lectures

Click on the links below to view or download pdf files of the class lecture presentations:

  • Introduction; Listening to Music; Basics of Composition

  • Composing a Melody; New Melodic Resources; Impressionism, Exoticism

  • American Music (Fall semester)

  • Structure, Form, and Process (Spring semester)

  • Principles of Acoustics; Microtonality

  • New Harmonic Resources

  • Polytonality; Neoclassicism

  • Free Atonality; Expressionism

  • Dodecaphony; Integral Serialism

  • Influences of Serialism; Reactions to Serialism

  • Explorations in Timbre, Texture, and Space (Fall semester)

  • Postmodernism (Spring semester)

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