Year: 2008
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(musTh212) Lecture Notes: Chromatic Voice Leading
From chapter 39 of the Gauldin, there are four primary techniques for voice leading during chromatic passages. Sequences by half-step motion. Like diatonic sequences by whole step, these half-step sequences involve alternations of inverted and root position chords. Secondary dominants in inversion, 65 – 53 and 42 – 6, are the most common, as they…
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(maxmsp) Example Patchers now in iLocker
Since I’ve heard that there have been problems downloading the patcher links, I’ve also put the example patchers in my iLocker account (BSU_SHARED folder). You can get there by following the link: http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/maxmsp_examples/ Enter your BSU username and password for access. I’ll also put the link in the sidebar of the blog in the Keith…
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(musTh212) Reading and Listening 3
We’re up to Chapter 41 in the Gauldin now (you read chapter 40 last semester). Read it for Wednesday. Listening: Franck, Moderato from Chorale No. 1 in E Major for organ, pp. 354 – 355. There is a CD on reserve at the Music Listening Center, or you can use the NML (either BIS-CD-214-15 or…
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(musTh212) Assignment: Chromatic Voice Leading
Due Friday (1/18): From the workbook, p. 353, 1A p. 355, 3A p. 356, 4A Take a look at each one before Wednesday, in case you want to ask questions in class. If you know that you’ll be gone on Friday for IMEA, try to turn the assignment in on Thursday. Slide it under my…
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(maxmsp) Lecture Notes: table, counter, gate, and menu
Comments I chose to use a comment to my previous post to clarify something that we covered in class today (the use of gate instead of switch). Problems with the Example Patches Michael Brown emailed me that he had a problem opening the example patches from the blog links. I’m not sure why this isn’t…
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(maxmsp) Lecture Notes: Screen Aesthetics, MIDI
The example patch for 1/11. Some things to help you complete your first programming assignment. Make sure you look at the manual pages (Max46ReferenceManual.pdf) and help files for new objects that we cover in class. On Friday we covered: notein, and noteout makenote random kbslider slider dial table Some tips for table: double-click the table…
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(musTh212) Wagner Notes
First up on the business end, we’ll finish talking about Gauldin Ch. 39, Chromatic Voice Leading, on Monday. Bring your Gualdin, Burkhart, and the first couple of sheets from Ch. 39 of the Workbook (you can tear them out or bring your whole workbook…). Notes on Wagner’s Prelude from Tristan and Isolde Overall, the Prelude…
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(maxmsp) Turning in Assignments
We’ll use the musictechxserve to turn in assignments and files. Unless otherwise specified, use this procedure: Name your file with your last name and the assignment number. If you have multiple files, you can put them all in a single folder, and name the folder with your last name and assignment number. Connect and login…
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(maxmsp) Assignment 2: Scale and Arpeggiater Patches
Due Wednesday, 1/16 (start of class) Create two separate MaxMSP patches. Patch 1: Create a patch that plays a major or natural minor scale built on any given starting note. Allow the user to select the type of scale to be performed. The user should be able to enter the starting note by either clicking…
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(maxmsp) Reading Assignment 2
From MaxMSP46Fundamentals.pdf: Read through the sections on Menus and Objects. For additional help/practice, you can work through the tutorials up to Test 2.