Music 253/CS 275a Winter 2017 Syllabus

Syllabus

See also Music 254/CS 275b Syllabus

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Week	Dates	Topics
1	10 Jan 2017	Overview of music representation and course resources Lecture 01A: Musical InformationVideo version Lecture M1a: Music Notation and Representation Demo: Malinowski's Music Animation Machine Assignment #1: Design your own music representation system (Due 17 Jan 2017)
1	12 Jan 2017	Lecture 01B: Applying Musical Information Lecture M1b: Rosetta Stone of Musical Encodings (see also Rosetta Stone of Musical Data Codes wikipage) Lab #1: Guido Music Notation Assignment #2: Finish Guido lab exercises at home (Due 19 Jan 2017)
2	17 Jan 2017	Input methods: textual input Lecture 02A: Input Methods for Musical Notation Lab #2a: Computer keyboard Input methods in Finale
2	19 Jan 2017	Input methods: MIDI keyboard input Lecture 2B: Sound-MIDI Introduction 2017 Lab #2b: MIDI keyboard Input methods in Finale Assignment #3: Finish Lab 2b exercises (Due 24 Jan 2017)
3	24 Jan 2017	Input methods: OMR and Data Interchange Lecture 03A: Optical Music Recognition 2016.pdf Lecture M2: Introduction to XML/MusicXML Lab #3: Optical music recognition with SharpEye. Install instructions for SharpEye Assignment #4: SharpEye to Finale/MuseScore/Noteflight (Due 31 Jan 2017)
3	26 Jan 2017	MIDI Protocol/Standard MIDI Files Lecture 03B: MIDI Continuation 2017 Lecture M3a: MIDI protocol (extra: Hexadecimal numbers) Topic: MIDI roadmap of the byte Topic: MIDI bytes/messages (cinmidi) Topic: MIDI messages Lecture M3b: Standard MIDI Files Topic: Outline of the Standard MIDI File structure Topic: Variable length values
4	31 Jan 2017	General MIDI Field trip to CCRMA's Disklavier. Demo, discussion. Come prepared to record your own MIDI file to use for your homework. Lecture 04A: Timbre and Quantization (MIDI) Topic: General MIDI instruments (plus percussion key numbers on channel 10) Topic: General MIDI continuous controllers binasc tool for creating MIDI files in a text editor Assignment #5a: MIDI file parsing homework (Due 7 Feb 2017)
4	2 Feb 2017	MIDI Extensions/Wrap-up Lecture 04B: MIDI extensions and alternatives Tour of the Archive of Recorded Sound and the Dennis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls.
5	7 Feb 2017	SCORE user input code Lecture 05A: Introduction to SCORE Lab: SCORE user input SCORE 5-Stage Input Reference
5	9 Feb 2017	SCORE music editor Lecture 05B. Repertories with Special Needs Lab: Input Exercises done on paper in previous session SCORE survival guide
6	14 Feb 2017	SCORE simple examples Lecture 06A. Extremes within CMN Lab: Input slightly harder SCORE examples Homework #6: Finish SCORE user input 2, Due 21 February 2017
6	16 Feb 2017	SCORE parameters Lecture 06B. Score textures and tracks Lecture: SCORE parameters Score parameter examples: notes, slurs/ties
7	21 Feb 2017	Lecture 07A. Codes for Archiving and Repurposing: The Essen Associative Code (EsAC) and Plaine & Easie (used in RISM) SCORE parameters 2 Lab/Homework: Hard SCORE exercises, Due 2 March 2017
7	23 Feb 2017	MuseData Lecture 07B. Codes for Archiving and Repurposing: MuseData (presented by Walter B. Hewlett) Beethoven String Quartets MuseData files for the quartets muse2ps for printing the MuseData files Applications of MuseData Lecture by Craig Sapp
8	28 Feb 2017	Transposition via Base-40 Lecture 08b. Base-40 Arithmetic for Music Apps Augmented Music Scores (INScore)
8	2 Mar 2017	MEI and Verovio Lecture 08A. Markup Languages for Music: MusicXML and MEI Lecture: MEI and Verovio (presented by Craig Sapp) XML homework (Due March 9)
9	7 Mar 2017	Humdrum file format Lecture 09A. Introduction to Humdrum Lecture: Humdrum file format
9	9 Mar 2017	Humdrum Analysis 1 Lecture 09B. Uses of Humdrum Lab: Humdrum Tools I Humdrum homework (Due March 16).
10	14 Mar 2017	Music as Intellectual Property Lecture 10A. Basic Concepts in Music Copyright Lecture 10A (2017): Music Copyright Humdrum Analysis 2 Lecture/Demo: Humdrum Tools II Lab: Humdrum Lab
10	16 Mar 2017	Lecture 10B. From IP to Data Resources Algorithmic Generation of Music Scores
FE	23 Mar 2017	Take-home final (4-credit students) Due by 10 p.m.