The seminar explores the various aspects that surround the relationship of text and music for composers and is a practical and project-based course where students will be expected to compose music — individually and/or collaboratively — and work with other student performers. This is in addition to weekly reading, listening and score studies throughout the semester.

Topics include: music as a psychological support of text; text that allows musical thinking; exploring the difference in writing for the operatic voices, choir, vocal ensemble, popular styles; the unwritten word; writing text about music.