Author: Keith Kothman
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(musTh1) Reading, Rhythmic/Metric Beaming
For Friday, 8/28, read chapter B in the Roig-Francoli (RF), and the following information about beaming and ties, from Professor Oravitz. If you’d like to print out the following to have and to hold, look for rhythmic_beaming.pdf in my iLocker account. To Beam or not to beam: an initial guide to using beams in rhythmic/metric…
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(musTh1) Lecture Notes: Register and Intervals
Pitch Notation – Register We will name pitch register using middle C as C4. Going down is C3, C2, etc., and up is C5, C6, etc. The register break for numbering happens between B – C, no matter what accidentals are involved. For example, the B# above middle C is B#4, despite being the enharmonic…
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(musTh1) Assignment: Notation and Intervals
Due Friday, 8/28: Workbook, pp. 2 – 4, A1 – A4, and A6 – A9.
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(musTh1) Assignment: Create a WordPress Account and Comment
Create a wordpress account, and comment on this post. Use the handout in class as a guide to creating your account.
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(21stCent) Ligeti Listening
The next composer we will cover is György Ligeti, a Hungarian composer who spent most of his professional life in Germany. We will actually take two passes at Ligeti, looking first at two mid-period works from the 1960s, before later looking at some late-period works from the 1980s – early 2000. Start with Lux Aeterna…
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(21stCent) Webern Listening
Review Materials Short summaries of interval class, pitch set analysis, and 12-tone serialism are on this site from my teaching of MUSTH 212. Intervals in atonal theory Pitch-class set analysis (and here) 12-tone serialism Audio Files I’ve put mp3 files for the Webern listening (for Wednesday) in my iLocker account. Any files I put online…
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(compMus1) Freespace problems on the server
Problem: You get an error message that says that there is not enough free space on the server when you try to copy your project files to my drop box on the musictech server. Solution: You need to clear out space on YOUR server folder. Server allocation limits (disk quotas) are tied to the user,…
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(compMus1) Quiz update – Listening List
The listening/identification portion of the quiz is still on for Thursday. We’ll do the listening portion in class, with the remainder of the quiz completed at home and turned in on Monday. Everything you need for the listening quiz is in this post.
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(compMus1) No class on 4/28; Quiz Update
I’m sick and won’t be able to make it in for classes tomorrow (Tuesday, 4/28). The quiz on Thursday will be a take-home quiz. I’ll give it to you Thursday, and it will be do Monday. Keep an eye on the blog for more updates.
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(compMus1) The Vocoder in Reason
Vocoders use a type of cross synthesis. Cross synthesis involves using the parameters of one sound to synthesize or process similar parameters in another sound. In the case of a vocoder, the amplitudes of frequency bands of a modulation audio signal are used to set the gain levels for bandpass filters that are applied to…