Creators in the?Faculty of Music
Composers are creators that use sound to manipulate time and space. Music, referred to as such,?encompasses everything from instrumental, vocal, orchestral, and electronic music--and its purview only continues to expand as society and times change.
In the composition course, where the top creators in the Faculty of Music come together, students can receive?individual guidance from instructors active in their respective areas of specialization. Students start with group learning on theoretical topics, covering everything from the fundamentals of composition to application. The curriculum incorporates practical elements as well, with a variety of opportunities for students to perform their works on and off campus, collaborate with the musicians performing their pieces, and more.
Curriculum
Making far-reaching creativity work in a modern world
Full-time faculty members provide both individualized and group instruction (in the composition theory requirements for each year of study) to students in the composition major to help them develop specialized practical skills.?Students are encouraged to apply this knowledge toward?refinement of their composition fundamentals. Students also test out their pieces in groups, seminars, and trial performances while taking additional classes (special lectures, extension lectures, lecture-concerts, and more) taught by musicians working on the front lines in Japan and abroad. Through this process, they learn the methodologies driving the creation of everything from Western classical music to avant-garde pieces while getting a broad, developmental education on collaboration with other fields, approaches to Japanese and other forms of folk music, and the place music occupies in our modern world.
Faculty members
Professor
KOBAYASHI Akira
Composition
Professor
YAMAMOTO Hiroyuki
Composition, Contemporary Music
Professor
NARIMOTO Rica
Composition, Contemporary Music
Associate Professor
YASUNO Taro
Composition, Automatic Music, Media Performance, Media Art, "Zombie Music"