Course Title:
Advanced Music Perception and Cognition
Format:
Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Lecture is concurrent with Music 108
Prerequisites:
Consent of Instructor
Experimental studies in Music Perception and Cognition. Research projects required.
Description:
A review of the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive foundations of listening, composing, and performing. Topics include relations among various acoustical and perceptual characterizations of sound; perception of pitch, temporal relations, timbre, stability conditions, and auditory space; auditory scene analysis and perceptual grouping mechanisms; perceptual principles for melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic organization; orchestration as spectral composition. A graduate-level course research project is required.