Year: 2008
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(musTh1) Lecture Notes on Intervals
A musical interval is described by its quantity and its quality. Quantity describes the number of diatonic steps in the interval. When combined with the interval quality, an interval of a specific number of half-steps is described. Unisons, fourths, fifths, and octaves (1, 4, 5, and 8 ) qualities are: d – P – A…
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(compMus2) Roads' Computer Music Tutorial Available Online
Congrats to Butters! He found the Computer Music Tutorial online through Google Books. If you don’t have The Book, you can read it online here.
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(musTh1) Homework-Pitch
Due Friday, 8/29/08: Workbook: p. 2, ex. 1B p. 7, ex. 12 p. 9, ex. 16A p. 10, ex. 17
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(compMus2) Reading Assignment 2
Due Frida 8/29: In the Roads, read: pp. 90 – 95, “Fixed-Waveform Table-Lookup Synthesis” pp. 134 – 144, “Additive Synthesis…”
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(compMus2) Tassman Doc's
I took a quick look at the software volume on the musictechxserve, and I didn’t find the Tassman manual. Until it gets put there, you can find the manual at two places: On each computer, in /harddrive/Library/Application Support/Applied Acoustics Systems/Tassman 4/Tassman Manual.pdf In my iLocker account (http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kkothman/BSU_SHARED/), inside the BSU_SHARED/241 folder. If you click on…
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(musTh1) Notes: Pitch
Concepts, Terms to know about Pitch: Pitch: the relative highness or lowness of sounds. Pitch Register: c4 = middle C on the keyboard. Numbers increase going up octaves. Pitch Class: any C (or other pitch), in any register. Diatonic Pitch Collection = the natural, or white-key collection of pitches. Enharmonic spellings: (we didn’t go over…
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(compMus2) Brief Notes about Tassman
The very brief intro to Tassman Tassman works by connecting modules together to make instruments. You create your instruments in the Builder view. You play them, and adjust parameters (knobs, sliders, etc.) in the Player view. Basic modules you’ll want to explore include: Generators: Vco (voltage controlled oscillator), Vcs (vc sine oscillator), and Lfo (low…
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(compMus2) Reading Assignment: Russolo
Due Wednesday, 8/27 Read Russolo’s “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto” in Audio Culture (chapter 2, pp. 10 – 14), or online at ubuweb. Email to me short responses to the following questions: Electronic musicians have a fairly specific definition of noise. (random waveforms that produce all frequencies) Is Russolo using this defintion? If not,…
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(musTh1) Assignment: Create a WordPress Account
Due Friday, 8/29/08: Create a WordPress account and comment on this post. If I can’t easily tell who you are by looking at your account/username, then make sure to tell me who you are in your comment text. If you already have a WordPress account, you do not need to create a new one, just…