With the guidance of a composer and through her own practical work and experimenting, the student shall use her creative skills and energies and learn methods to find a personal expression, a maximum flow of ideas, and ways in which to select and develop these. The course represents a specialization of knowledge and skills learned at foundation level. The course provides a platform for further studies in composition and creative work, or for pedagogic work with composition and improvisation in schools, music schools and voluntary music organizations.Central to the course content are non-tonal and free-tonal sound, and the physical placement and movement of sound in three-dimensional space. Course work will focus on the following:1) Background perspectives:Relaxation and concentration techniques.Existential themes and the role of music in such themes.2) Tools and work methods:Elasticity and intuitive evaluation.3) Creating music:Limiting musical materials.Extending and developing musical materials.Building co-sounding materials (vertical structures), line-building (horizontal structures - harmonic, melodic, dynamic, rhythmic, in movement), sound placement and movement in three-dimensional space.Building musical character, instrumentation (colouring, distribution of roles, consistency of expression), and articulation.Building form (dramaturgy).Planning a composition/improvisation.Notation.