| Instructor: Dr Ho Chee Kong |
Module Schedule
Week 1 (Aug 3) What do we hear around us? Music? Noise?
Introduction – “One man’s music is another man’s noise.”
Definitions –How do we define music? Through physics,culture, philosophy, mathematics?
Readings:
- Sound, Noise, Music, Technology
Listenings: TBA
Week 2 (Aug 10) How do we represent music?
Musical Notation, Describing Music, Recording Music
Readings:
- Lippman, “Harmonic and Ethical Views” pg 3-16
- Musical Notation 1
- Musical Notation 2
Listenings: TBA
Week 3 (Aug 17) Music and Cognition
Understanding Music – through music theories? – through the way
we hear it? – through the way we are exposed to it?
Readings:
- Schwartz, “Aaron Copland – The Creative Mind and the Interpretative
Mind” pg 146-159
Listenings: TBA
Week 4 (Aug 24) Musical and Scientific Thoughts
Scientific Methods, Musical Aesthetics
Readings:
- Xenakis, “Formalized Music”
- Dahlhaus, “Esthetics of Music” pg 74-83
Week 5 (Aug 31) Musical Instruments and Technology
Changes in design and performance
Evolution - tracing the development of traditional and electronic keyboards
Readings:
Listenings: TBA
Week 6 (Sep 7) RECESS
Week 7 (Sep 14) Technological Advancements
The Modern Society – Futurism, Embracing Noise
Technology and Music – Comparing music environment between the 19th and 20th century
QUIZ 1
Readings:
- Williams, “Introduction” pg xxv-5
- Chadabe, “The Great Opening Up of Music to All Sounds” pg 21-62
Listenings: TBA
Week 8 (Sep 21) Meeting with Technology
Composers 1 – thoughts and attitudes toward technology in music
Readings:
- Schwartz, “Edgard Varese – The Liberation of Sound” pg 195-208
Week 9 (Sep 28) Mass Media
Mass Communication – radio, television, internet, global village
Mass Consumption – what? whose? where? how? freedom of expression, copyrights
and performing rights
Readings:
Listenings: TBA
Week 10 (Oct 5) Electronic Music
Acoustic versus Electronic
Man and/or/versus Machine – the creators, the performers, and the listeners
Listenings: TBA
Week 11 (Oct 12) Music and Computers
Digital Sound Synthesis and Signal Processing
Representing electronic/computer music
Readings:
- Williams, “Acoustics Primer” pg 163-172
Listenings: TBA
Week 12 (Oct 19) Music by Computers
Automated music – systematic design, artificial intelligence, physical
models
Musical Aesthetics 2
Readings:
- Chadabe, “Automata” pg 258-275
- Listenings: TBAWeek 13 (Oct 26) Multimedia
- Connecting the Arts through Technology – can the arts interact with
one another?
- Creating the Ideal Multimedia Environment
QUIZ 2
Listenings: TBA
Week 14 (Nov 2) Music of the Future
Music now – live performances, virtual performances, no performances
MYOM – manage your own music
Readings:
- Meyer, “Future Tense: Music, Ideology, and Culture” pg 317-349
Listenings: TBA
Week 15 (Nov 9) Conclusion
Presentations (A) and Discussion: TBA
Presentations (B) and Discussion: TBA
**Note: Instructor reserves the right to make changes to the course schedule.
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