Basic Electroacoustics II: Music-Making Systems |
| Music G6602Y |
| TueThu 3:10-5:00pm |
| Spring 2007 |
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| Professor: Douglas Repetto [douglas at music columbia edu] |
| TA: Jeff Snyder [jeff at scattershot org] |
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| Our Motto: "Why and how." |
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| syllabus | lectures |
We will discuss principles of musical cognition that have arisen from Lerdahl's theoretical work and related empirical studies. These principles have implications for methods of composition and hence for computer aids to composition.
Relevant readings:
Timbral Hierarchies. Contemporary Music Review, 1, 135-160 (1987).
Cognitive Constraints on Compositional Systems. In J. Sloboda, ed., Generative Processes in Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1988). (Reprinted in Contemporary Music Review, 6, 97-121.)
Composing Notes. Current Musicology, 67 & 68, 243-251 (2002).
Tonal Pitch Space. New York: Oxford University Press (2001).