Author: Keith Kothman
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(maxmsp) Constant-Power Pan/Granular Tool Kit
If you want the cpPan~ object, the best way to get it is to download the Granular Tool Kit, developed by Nathan Wolek. The cpPan~ object comes with the tool kit. It’s free, and available for Mac or Windows. We’ll get into granular synthesis as part of the live performance class module, so you’ll want…
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(musth212) 12-tone Matrix Assignment
Due April 8th: Kostka, Ch. 10 Part A, #4: Analyze the given row for trichord pitch-class sets (give Normal and Prime forms); and construct a 12-tone matrix with the P(0) form of the row across the top. Part A, #5: Analyze the given row for tetrachord pitch-class sets (give Normal and Prime forms); and construct…
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(musth212) Pitch-Class Set Analysis, Webern
Due Wednesday, April 6th: Follow instructions on handout. Question 5 can be done for extra credit. PitchClassAnalysis.pdf
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(maxmsp) pitch modification
Here’s a basic outline of how to modify pitch with an envelope or lfo. It’s best to express pitch variation in semitones so that you can add it to some MIDI note number and get the same frequency variation depth at whatever starting frequency. The trick is to convert the midi note number input to…
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(maxmsp) poly~ assignment
Due Friday, April 8th: Create a polyphonic synthesis patcher with selectable presets. Your patcher should contain some form of synthesis using at least two oscillators (additive, AM, FM), a filter of some type, and presets for changing patcher parameters, including envelopes, durations, frequencies and frequency ratios, and filter settings. Extra credit for envelope/lfo control of…
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(musth212) Classic Serialism-Row Forms and the Matrix
Basic information about row forms, constructing a matrix, and naming row forms with transposition can be found in this classic post about classic serialism.
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(musth212) Transposing and Inverting Pitch-Class Sets
Transposition Transposition of pitch-class sets is by ordered pitch-class interval. Before going any further, consider the implications of that first statement. Transposition is by pitch class, which means that a transposition could contain octave displacements and still be a transposition. Transposition is by ordered pitch-class interval, which means that we always count the transposition distance…
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(musth212) Pitch-Class Sets, Normal Form
The first thing to do with a collection of pitches, a pitch-class set, is to arrange the pitch classes into a form that can be used to compare one set to another. The first order of arrangement is Normal Form, which arranges the pitch classes in ascending order, starting with the pitch class that gives…
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(musth212) Atonal Interval Assignment
Due Monday, 3/28: Two-page, IntervalsAssign. Note the added exercise at the bottom of the second page. Use the updated Octave and Enharmonic Equivalence, Intervals post for help. Note that you will have to do some of the assignment of staff paper. It will help you if you combine your answers for questions IV/2, V/2, VI/1,…
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(musth212) Late Post: Rhythm/Meter Assignment
I never posted this assignment. If you haven’t turned it in, please do so by Monday, 3/28. Chapter 6 Part A: 4 and 5 Part B: 5 and 6 Remember, to find new tempos in tempo modulation excerpts you follow the formula: original_tempo * (original_grouping_number / new_grouping_number) = new_tempo The grouping numbers will be the…