Professional Music and Song Techniques (Composition and Arrangement)

Code	551.A0
Diploma	DCS
Sector	Arts
Number of credits	90
Status	Version approved in 2001. Program modified in 2005.

Note(s)
This program is offered in French: Techniques professionnelles de musique et chanson (Composition et arrangement)

Program Objectives

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.

Length of training

Option	Specific (hours)	Total (hours)
Specialization A - Composition and arrangement	1350	2010

Specific (hours)	Total (hours)
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.

Program Content

Number or Code	Statement of the Competency
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

Number or Code	Statement of the Competency
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

Admission Conditions and Prerequisites

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

Educational Organizations Offering the Program

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College	D/E
Vanier College	—

Musical Arranger

Musical arrangers, or composers, compose or arrange musical pieces. They compose songs or musical pieces, play musical instruments and transcribe music onto sheet music. They may have to do musical recordings in a studio. This is an exciting profession for disciplined, versatile and rigorous people with musical talent.