Professional Music and Song Techniques (Composition and Arrangement)

Code	551.A0
Sanction	DEC
Secteur	Arts
Nombre d'unités	90
Statut	Version approved in 2001. Program modified in 2005.

Note(s)
Ce programme est offert en langue française : Techniques professionnelles de musique et chanson (Composition et arrangement)

Objectifs du programme

The professional music and song techniques program aims to train musicians and vocalists capable of developing in various styles of popular music. These styles mainly include 20th century music and song produced as entertainment for a mass market: rock, jazz, blues, pop, industry, ethnic, folk, world Beat, etc.

Specialization A : Composition and arrangement

This specialization stream allows the students to acquire skills in arranging as well as composing music and songs. Arrangement is distinguished from composition because the starting point for the activity is an already existing work. The arranger modifies or elaborates on a work to improve it or adapt it to a particular context.

Durée de la formation

Option	Spécifique (heures)	Totale (heures)
Specialization A - Composition and arrangement	1350	2010

Spécifique (heures)	Totale (heures)
1350	2010

Total length of training includes general training that is common to all programs for 420 hours, general training for this program for 150 hours as well as complementary general training courses for 90 hours.

Duration of training consists of theory and lab work for courses; personal time that the student invests is excluded.

Contenu du programme

Numéro ou code	Énoncé de la compétence
01FA	To use elements of musical language
01FB	To transcribe musical materials
01FE	To perform musical works
01FF	To appreciate characteristics of musical works
01FG	To develop instrumental versatility
01FH	To develop artistic sensibility
01FJ	To adapt to new technologies in music
01FL	To manage a career

Specialization A - Composition and Arrangement

Numéro ou code	Énoncé de la compétence
01FC	To master the popular music idiom
01FD	To transcribe a piece of popular music
01FK	To establish professional communications
01FM	To arrange a piece of popular music
01FN	To compose a piece of popular music
01FP	To record popular music
01FQ	To compose a song

Number of contact hours allotted: 1 350

Conditions d'admission et préalables

To be admitted to the program, a person must meet the general requirements for admission set out in the College Education Regulations, as well as the following special conditions, where applicable:

• no requirements

Organismes scolaires offrant le programme

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Particularité :

Collège	J/S
Vanier College	—

Arrangeur musical

Les arrangeuses et les arrangeurs musicaux, ou les compositeurs, arrangent ou adaptent des pièces de musique. Ils composent des pièces de musique et des chansons, jouent des instruments de musique et transposent la musique en partitions. Ils peuvent avoir à réaliser des enregistrements musicaux en studio. C’est un métier passionnant pour ceux qui ont des aptitudes pour la musique tout en étant disciplinés, polyvalents et rigoureux.