Author: Keith Kothman
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(maxmsp) Class Canceled 3/21/08
Class is canceled today, 3/21/08. Turn in your audio processing patchers. Come to the New Music Festival.
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(musTh 212) Pitch-Class Sets and Interval Vectors, Part 1
Pitch-Class Sets Pitch-Class Sets are unordered collections of pitch-classes. Normal Form. The normal form of a pitch-class set is the most compressed way of writing the set in ascending pitch-class order. Compressed means traversing the shortest interval from first pitch-class to last, and placing smaller intervals first. Transposition. A pitch-class set can be transposed by…
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(maxmsp) Assignment: New Music Festival Concert Attendance
Planning ahead… The BSU Festival of New Music will be Friday and Saturday, 3/21 and 3/22, with a guest composer talk by Thomas Wells on Thursday, 3/20. Wells is active in computer music and acoustic composition. He counts among his teachers Karlheinz Stockhausen. All 242 students are required to attend at least three concerts. (You…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Concert Attendance at NMF
Planning ahead… The BSU Festival of New Music will be Friday and Saturday, 3/21 and 3/22, with a guest composer talk by Thomas Wells on Thursday, 3/20. All students in my 212 sections are required to attend at least two concerts. You will need to find me just before the beginning of the concerts you…
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(musTh 212 and muMet 242) Updated Blogroll
I’ve updated the blogroll (links section) towards the lower right of the blog. Within the BSU section I’ve added links to this year’s BSU Festival of New Music and the 212 Folder in my iLocker account.
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Ordered Intervals, Interval Classes
Due 3/17/08: intervalAssign.pdf, in ilocker. For the solo violin line, indicate the ordered intervals below the staff, and the un-ordered interval classes above the staff. Remember that ordered intervals indicate direction with a + or – (the + is assumed if nothing is indicated), and count the total number of half steps between notes. Un-ordered…
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(musTh 212) Lecture Notes: Basic Concepts for Atonal Theory
These concepts are taken from Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory by Joseph Straus. Basic Concepts Octave Equivalence. Pitches separated by one or more octaves are regarded as equivalent. Pitch Class. Distinguishes between a specific pitch (a single note on a staff) and a pitch class (all the notes with the same letter name, in any octave).…
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(musTh 212) Listening and Reading Assignment
For Monday, 3/3/08: Primary Reading and Listening Read the portion of chapter discussing Tempo Modulation and Polytempo. Listen to Elliott Carter’s “Canaries” from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, pp. 509 – 511 of the Burkhart. (Online via NML, BCD9111) Through listening and score study, be able to intelligently discuss how tempo modulation provides organization to…
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(musTh 212) Assignment: Rhythm and Meter
Due Monday, 3/3/08: Kostka, pp. 137 – 138, Part B Numbers 5 and 6. Note: There is a very traditional rhythmic relationship between the two parts of number 5. Identify it. Note 2: For number 6, the top line of the first system, the chords have an internal relationship. Look for it and describe it.
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(maxmsp) Project Assignment: Audio Processer
Create a patcher that processes digital audio in some creative way. Your audio processor should: process audio played back by sfplay~. Live input can be included, and will definitely be added at a later date. record the processed audio via sfrecord~, along with outputting the live audio to the dac~. make use of MIDI input…