Year: 2011
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(maxmsp) set, umenu, transport, musical time syntax
Demo patchers are uploaded. One shows order of operation with a breakpoints; the other shows musical time syntax with a few extra objects: set, umenu, and transport. Order of Operation Musical Time Both patchers are fully commented. Poke around.
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(musTh 212) Assignment 4: Kostka Chapter 1
Due Friday, January 28: From the Kostka book, p. 15, Part A, numbers 1, 3, and 4 p. 18, Part B, number 3 (a – h) (Recording available on Naxos. Search for CRC2984. The written example starts around 25 seconds in.) You can write/type answers separately from the book and turn them in hard copy…
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(musTh 212) Assignment 3: Integer Notation and Transposition
Although this was assigned while I was gone, I’m posting it for the record. IntNotationAssign.pdf
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(musTh 212) Twilight of the Tonal System
Wrapping up notes from chapter one of the Kostka. Kostka audio examples in iLocker, here. As was pointed out in class, a lot of the terms are self explanatory. I’ll just limit this post to some highlights. Chromatic mediant relationships increase chromaticism in late tonal music, and they help in weakening circle-of-fifth progressions. Chromatic mediants…
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(musTh 212) Integer Notation
I’ve covered this before on the blog. http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2008/01/musth212-lecture-notes-integer-notation/
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(maxmsp) Demo Patchers and More Basics
I uploaded two demo patchers to iLocker. (day03a.maxpat and day03b.maxpat) day03a just adds ctlin/ctlout and pgmout to the basic note pass through patcher from day 1. day03b adds two ways to control the toggle of the random arpeggiator patcher. The first way uses a midi key to turn the toggle on and off (user control).…
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(musTh 212) Assignment 2: Chromatic Sequences
A little part-writing soothes the soul… Due Wednesday, Jan. 19. musth212assignment2
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(musTh 212) Chromatic Sequences
A summary of chromatic sequences taken from RF. Descending Circle-of-Fifths (The Fonte) If successive chords are all secondary dominants, then sequence is chromatic. Remember that the chordal seventh is a vertical dissonance, and must resolve down by step. The leading tone (third of the chord) is consonant. The LT gets lowered by chromatic half-step to…
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(analyticTech) Melody and Counterpoint
Melody and counterpoint reading. Please let me know if there are any downloading/reading issues. Create a chorale-style notation of Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major, from the WTC I, and provide a Roman numeral analysis. I didn’t find a score on IMSLP, so I’m providing one. You can listen to a plodding Ashkenazy performance…
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(maxmsp) Post Title Update
Not exciting, but a necessary bookkeeping thing… I looked back over old posts, and it turns out that I hadn’t been very consistent with my post title tag for computer music 3/mumet 242. I changed the title tag (the part I put in parentheses at the beginning of the title) to “maxmsp.” Why it helps?…