Author: Keith Kothman
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(compMus2) Brief Notes about Tassman
The very brief intro to Tassman Tassman works by connecting modules together to make instruments. You create your instruments in the Builder view. You play them, and adjust parameters (knobs, sliders, etc.) in the Player view. Basic modules you’ll want to explore include: Generators: Vco (voltage controlled oscillator), Vcs (vc sine oscillator), and Lfo (low…
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(compMus2) Reading Assignment: Russolo
Due Wednesday, 8/27 Read Russolo’s “The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto” in Audio Culture (chapter 2, pp. 10 – 14), or online at ubuweb. Email to me short responses to the following questions: Electronic musicians have a fairly specific definition of noise. (random waveforms that produce all frequencies) Is Russolo using this defintion? If not,…
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(musTh1) Assignment: Create a WordPress Account
Due Friday, 8/29/08: Create a WordPress account and comment on this post. If I can’t easily tell who you are by looking at your account/username, then make sure to tell me who you are in your comment text. If you already have a WordPress account, you do not need to create a new one, just…
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(compMus2) Assignment: Create a WordPress Account
Create a WordPress account and comment on this post. If I can’t easily tell who you are by looking at your account/username, then make sure to tell me who you are in your comment text. If you already have a WordPress account, you do not need to create a new one, just comment on this…
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(musTh 212) Final Exam Grades Posted
Final Exam grades are now up on Gradebook. I’m still catching up on assignment grades. Course grades will be up by Sunday night.
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(musTh 212) Final Exam Review
Terms and Topics to Review for the Final Exam: scales and chords chromatic mediant relationships polytonality and pandiatonicism rhythm and meter, especially complex meters intervals in atonal theory, including: pitch (ordered and unordered) pitch class (ordered and unordered) interval classes pitch-class set analysis, (and here) including: normal order prime form interval vector serialism and 12-tone…
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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: Chance Music
Chance music runs contrary to the prevailing 20th-century tendency towards greater and greater control over musical materials. There are many words that are mostly interchangeable to refer to chance: indeterminacy, aleatory, and improvisation are the most used. I will mostly used indeterminacy. There are three ways that music can be indeterminant: Indeterminacy with regards to…
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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: Minimalism
Minimalism began as a general reaction to post-WWII modernism, atonality, and integral serialism. As such, there are certain traits that one find in minimalist pieces, but the technique is not uniform (just as there are many ways of composing 12-tone music, for example). Characteristics of minimalism: diatonic/modal pitch content use of repetition short rhythmic cells/patterns…
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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: Timbre/Texture, Electronic
Speaking historically, there are two main approaches to composing electronically. One approach is to manipulate recorded sounds – natural sounds, or simply any sound recorded on tape. This approach is called Concrete Music (musique concrete) because the composer is manipulating actual sound, rather than notation (an abstraction, or representation of sound). The other approach involves…