Spring 2027

Intermediate Composition

Intermediate Composition provides individual instruction to students pursuing composition, covering melodic construction, harmonic voicing, counterpoint, and various musical textures.

offering recorded2–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Laura Schwendinger3.6/5

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop ability to express musical ideas in a coherent and effective manner

  • Demonstrate basics of melodic construction, harmonic voicing, counterpoint, and other compositional skills

  • Develop ability to express oneself in various musical textures (monophonic, homophonic, heterophonic, contrapuntal)

  • Practice composing musical threads that are held together in successful rhythmic composites, using a variety of rhythms

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Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM

  • Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM
MUSPERF 249

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  • Declared in the undergraduate Music program, Music: Performance BM, or Music: Education BM

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Raw average: 3.40/5 from 5 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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LAURA SCHWENDINGER is recorded teaching in Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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IND 046Classroom Instruction0 / 50
IND 146Classroom Instruction0 / 50

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Individual composition instruction for students pursuing composition.

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Topics

  • Melodic construction, harmonic voicing, and counterpoint.
  • Musical textures including monophonic, homophonic, heterophonic, and contrapuntal styles.
  • Rhythmic composites and the use of varied rhythms in composition.

Skills

  • Expressing musical ideas coherently; melodic construction; harmonic voicing; counterpoint; working with monophonic, homophonic, heterophonic, and contrapuntal textures; creating rhythmic composites.

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MUSPERF 249 · Spring 2027

Intermediate Composition

Recorded 2026-10-14
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