TeachingMusic

Author: Keith Kothman

  • (musTh625) audacity – free audio editing software

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    Audacity is an audio editor that works on both Mac and Windows. You can download it from Sourceforge. Audacity page at sourceforge Just remember, you have to check for updates on your own.

  • (pianoPed) software notation overview

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    Software notation programs like Finale and Sibelius can provide you with the ability to produce professional looking music scores and examples. That ability comes with a learning curve, however. Keep in mind, notation by hand is hard. There are a lot of rules to learn, and a lot of formatting issues to contend with. Knowing some elements of…

  • (musTh625) first reading assignment

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    For Monday (3/19), read: from teachingmusic musique concrète from Jeffrey Hass’s projects in electronic music online text chapter 1, sections 1, 2, 4, and 5

  • (musTh625) first listening list

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    Due 5/21 (Wednesday) Create listening guides for the following pieces: Michel Chion, Requiem – Dies Irae Two of the following: Gyorgy Ligeti, Artikulation James Tenney, Collage #1: Blue Suede Pierre Henry, Variations on a Door and Sigh (excerpt) Otto Luening, Low Speed Edgard Varese, Poeme Electronique (three guides total) Download the audio files from iLocker. (BSU login required)

  • (musTh625) making a listening guide for electro-acoustic music

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    Rather than make you memorize pieces/composers/dates in a short summer session, I want you to engage a few selected works in more detail. To do so, I want you to create listening guides for each assigned listening piece. The format of the guide will be as follows: composer name year composed duration overview detailed examination of…

  • (pianoPed) notation assignment

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    Due Monday, May 19. objective To use Finale to accurately notate a given short piece for piano. In the process, you will show mastery of basic page formatting, note entry, and other basic skills, as well as with some advanced notation skills such as cross stave notation. project description Use Finale to create a reproduction…

  • (pianoPed) file types for images and graphics

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    I’m not going to focus on too many topics related to image editing, as that is a discipline unto itself. I do want to talk about file formats, compression, and cropping. gif, jpeg, and png The three file types for web images are GIF, JPEG, and PNG. Photographs (pictures of natural images, people, etc.) should use…

  • (musTh625) audio properties, analog and digital recording

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    I’ve covered basic properties of sound in a previous post: http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2012/09/sonicarts-properties-of-sound/ I’ve also posted about analog and digital recording before, going into a little more detail about Sampling Rate, Bit Resolution, and Binary Numbers. http://teachingmusic.keithkothman.com/2013/09/sonicarts-analog-recording-digital-recording-digital-audio-sampling-theory/

  • (pianoPed) creating websites with wordpress

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    The highlights of website design with WordPress. WordPress.com WordPress.com is a free, content management system (CMS) for hosting a website. Many people use WordPress for blogging, and it is optimized for type of content. However, it provides an easy to use system for putting together a standard website. While a CMS can do a lot things, especially for…

  • (musTh625) assignment 1: soundwalk

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    Due Friday, May 16. The Handbook for Acoustic Ecology defines a soundwalk as follows: A form of active participation in the soundscape. Though the variations are many, the essential purpose of the soundwalk is to encourage the participant to listen discriminatively, and moreover, to make critical judgements about the sounds heard and their contribution to the balance…