Courses
Academic Courses
Music Information Technology
- MUS N364 Music Information Representation, Search, and Retrieval (3 cr.) P: Enrollment limited to students in the School of Informatics or permission of instructor. A comparative survey of computer-based representation schemes for music, including those oriented toward music notation, music performance, and music analysis. Overview of tools for computer-assisted music analysis using selected representation schemes.
- MUS N468 Topics in Music Information Technology (3 cr.) P: Permission of instructor. May be repeated for different topics.
- MUS N546 Symbolic Music Information Processing (3 cr.) P: Major, minor, or outside area standing in Music Informatics or Music Information Technology. Methodology and applications to algorithmically annotate, understand, recognize, and categorize music in symbolic form.
- MUS N547 Audio Music Information Processing (3 cr.) P: Major, minor, or outside area standing in Music Informatics or Music Information Technology. Music analysis and processing problems using sampled audio as the primary data representation. Digital signal processing, including filtering and its relationship to Fourier techniques. Synthesis, effects processing, score following, blind music recognition, and accompaniment systems.
- MUS N560 Introduction to Music Informatics (3 cr.) P: Major, minor, or outside area standing in Music Informatics or Music Information Technology. History, issues, and applications in music information technology. Survey of various types of musical information. Introduction to digital musical media, including data standards and processing; database structure and organization standards and processing; database structure and organization of audio-, score-, and textfile objects; and discussion of copyright issues.
- MUS N561 MIDI and Computer Music (3 cr.) P: Graduate standing. Basics of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface system, its software, and instruments commonly used with desktop MIDI workstations (synthesizers, digital samplers). In-depth study of MIDI sequencing, digital audio editing, and the architecture of electronic instruments. A final project and a paper on a computer music topic are required.
- MUS N562 Computer Music: Design/Perform (3 cr.) P: N561 Introduction to MIDI and Computer Music or equivalent experience and permission of instructor. Projects in fixed-media computer music composition (with and without video) and live electronic music performance. Field recording, audio editing, sampling, effects processing, mixing, mastering, video synchronization, methods of synthesis, virtual instrument design, real-time hardware control of audio, live video processing.
- MUS N563 Developing Computer–Based Music Instruction (3 cr.) P: Major, minor, or outside area standing in Music Informatics or Music Information Technology. Overview of the instructional design process, learning theories, user-interface design, and delivery of computer-based music learning. Survey of authoring tools.
- MUS N564 Music Information Representation, Search, and Retrieval (3 cr.) P: Major, minor, or outside area standing in Music Informatics or Music Information Technology. A comprehensive, comparative study of computer-based representation schemes for music, including those oriented toward music notation, music performance, and music analysis. Overview of musical metadata. Techniques and tools for search and retrieval of musical information.
- MUS N568 Topics in Music Information Technology (3 cr.) P: Permission of instructor. May be repeated for different topics.
- MUS N569 Independent Research in Music Information Technology (3 cr.) P: Admission to the Music Information Technology minor. Independent research in music information technology.
