MUSA2003 Music & Computing 1: Music Programming and Audio Analysis (5 cr)

Study level:
Intermediate studies
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English
Responsible organisation:
Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies
Curriculum periods:
2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023

Description

This course provides a theoretical and practical introduction to selected areas of computational musicology with a focus on the analysis and description of music in symbolic (e.g. MIDI), and digital forms. A focus is based on musical features relevant to music perception.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student is able to:

- Define the principal factors of a digital audio system

- Implement sound synthesis and audio processing algorithms/functions using standard analysis software and/or programming environments.

- Apply knowledge of digital audio for research purposes such as music information retrieval

- Write simple programming scripts for computational audio analysis

- Come up with creative strategies for analyzing sound computationally.

Completion methods

Method 1

Evaluation criteria:
Assessment is based on achievement of learning outcomes and completing all course assignments.
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Participation in teaching (5 cr)

Type:
Participation in teaching
Grading scale:
0-5
Language:
English

Teaching