Author: Keith Kothman
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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?…
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(maxmsp) Programming and Max Basics
Basic things you should know about programming and Max/MSP. Programming Basics Objects act on data. They do something. The object may already contain the data it needs to act, or it may receive the data from some other object. Messages are the data being passed between objects. In Max/MSP/Jitter anything that you place into the…
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(maxmsp) Reading Assignment: Zicarelli
Read David Zicarelli, “How I learned to Love a Program that Does Nothing.” Although Zicarelli was not one of the original developers of Max, he is the head of Cycling ’74 which now develops and markets it. Take notes on the reading. I could ask you a few questions about in quiz form Friday. If…
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(maxmsp) First Assignment: Tutorials
Your first assignment will be to do the Max Tutorials: Basic, 1 – 7 (through numerical user interfaces) MIDI 1 & 2 Due 1/17 (Monday). The point of the tutorials, and this assignment, is to get you familiar with basic processes and help facilities in Max/MSP. I could assign something different, but these tutorials are…