The 3 page summary, "The Geometry of Musical Chords" was available for the clicking (that's what I wanted you to bite into) on the website as listed in my earlier post. You can get it by following the instructions to find the PDF.
Good luck with making it through the article!
Friday, February 16, 2007
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
ZIPs uploaded for tomorrow
OK, I've uploaded what I could - sorry if I lost things along the way, couldn't open your file, or edited out the wrong piece. From the little I've had a chance to listen to, I think you'll have plenty (!!) to talk about and listen to tomorrow.
Please let me know how the class meeting goes, and I hope to see you a week from tomorrow.
Please let me know how the class meeting goes, and I hope to see you a week from tomorrow.
Monday, February 5, 2007
ZIP archives
The ZIP archive files will be posted here for the time being: http://www.nmt.edu/~music/mus489s07/
The date indicates which class period they're for (although discussion may continue into other classes). For Wednesday, anything with "perc" in the title is an excerpt of what you've sent me for percussion examples (I've clipped out pieces of the longer ones), and anything with "comp" in the title contains your work.
As you send in more recordings, I will add more ZIP files - time allowing - tomorrow afternoon.
The date indicates which class period they're for (although discussion may continue into other classes). For Wednesday, anything with "perc" in the title is an excerpt of what you've sent me for percussion examples (I've clipped out pieces of the longer ones), and anything with "comp" in the title contains your work.
As you send in more recordings, I will add more ZIP files - time allowing - tomorrow afternoon.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Assignments: current and next
Here are the current assignments...
By Tuesday at noon:
1. Send me an mp3 clip (someone else's music) that employs percussion in what you find to be an interesting way. If the clip is longer than a couple minutes, indicate when in the clip the interesting percussion occurs -- that way I'll edit it down to a smaller size for downloading.
2. Working together, each individual should compose another short piecelet (21-30 seconds again), just for some time-on-task. Midi focus again, but you may also include real instruments.
3. Find a singer or instrumentalist outside of the class who you'd like to work with on a future assignment, which will involve composing music for that person to perform.
If you get all the clips to me and I am able to in time, I'll list a ZIP file for download as before. If I am not able to in time, bring your materials on either a regular audio CD or an mp3 player to class on Wednesday. You may have to ask Paul for help in setting up the audio system before class and putting it away after class. In class, listen first to everyone's composition, and then (time allowing) to the examples of percussion. "Talk amongst yourselves." (i.e. discuss at will)
For Wednesday, February 14th:
Visit this website and browse around and read: http://music.princeton.edu/~dmitri/sciencearticle.html
I have read somewhere that this is the first music theory/composition article of its kind to appear in the journal Science. We'll discuss this article in class on the 14th.
P.S. about the TCC's short hours: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/hours.html
By Tuesday at noon:
1. Send me an mp3 clip (someone else's music) that employs percussion in what you find to be an interesting way. If the clip is longer than a couple minutes, indicate when in the clip the interesting percussion occurs -- that way I'll edit it down to a smaller size for downloading.
2. Working together, each individual should compose another short piecelet (21-30 seconds again), just for some time-on-task. Midi focus again, but you may also include real instruments.
3. Find a singer or instrumentalist outside of the class who you'd like to work with on a future assignment, which will involve composing music for that person to perform.
If you get all the clips to me and I am able to in time, I'll list a ZIP file for download as before. If I am not able to in time, bring your materials on either a regular audio CD or an mp3 player to class on Wednesday. You may have to ask Paul for help in setting up the audio system before class and putting it away after class. In class, listen first to everyone's composition, and then (time allowing) to the examples of percussion. "Talk amongst yourselves." (i.e. discuss at will)
For Wednesday, February 14th:
Visit this website and browse around and read: http://music.princeton.edu/~dmitri/sciencearticle.html
I have read somewhere that this is the first music theory/composition article of its kind to appear in the journal Science. We'll discuss this article in class on the 14th.
P.S. about the TCC's short hours: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/hours.html
Friday, February 2, 2007
I will not be there Wednesday
Due to an ongoing family medical crisis, I will not be able to be in class Wednesday, Febrary 7th. I think we can figure out ahead of time a way for the class to meet and/or share composition materials in a mutually useful way - I'll think about this over the weekend, and please post comments with ideas in reply to this post.
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