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740-356/456 Introduction To Electro-Acoustic Music

Elective Music subject.

Credit points: 10.0

Coordinator: Dr S Ingham.

Contact: A 2-hour seminar and three hours of studio work a week for one semester.

Objectives:

To develop skills in the use of electronic music equipment; and to-develop a critical awareness of sounds and how they may be combined, treated and sculpted in creative ways. -Students will also acquire a knowledge of the historical development of the subject.

Content:

A study of the techniques of electro-acoustic music, including musique concrè te, sound synthesis, sampling, digital processing and MIDI.

Assessment:

A tape recording of work composed in accordance with the course of study (80 per cent). The nature of the work will be determined and approved in the seminars; One class presentation ( 20 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

• Appleton J and Perera R (eds) The Development and Practise of Electronic Music 1975 Prentice-Hall
• Pressing, J Synthesizer Performance and Real-Time Techniques 1992 Oxford University Press

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Music (Volume 3 page 238)

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Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
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