STC204B: Musical Instruments, Sound, Perception, and Creativity
Dan Trueman
Musical instruments reside at the intersection of varied topics: sound, perception, embodiment, music theory, social values, and more; how has their design influenced the development of music and how might they be reinvented to spur new ideas?
STC204A: Musical Instruments, Sound, Perception, and Creativity
Dan Trueman
Musical instruments reside at the intersection of varied topics: sound, perception, embodiment, music theory, social values, and more; how has their design influenced the development of music and how might they be reinvented to spur new ideas?
STC209B: Transformations in Engineering and the Arts
Jeff Snyder
This course will examine transformations between visuals, sound, structure, and movement. This course explores the notion of generative art, and investigates the parallels between design processes in engineering and the arts.
STC209A: Transformations in Engineering and the Arts
Jeff Snyder
This course will examine transformations between visuals, sound, structure, and movement. This course explores the notion of generative art, and investigates the parallels between design processes in engineering and the arts.
MUS545: Contexts of Composition: Creative Practice in Cultural Perspective: Beyond Misogyny
Barbara White
What would artistic experience free of gender bias look like? Can we even imagine it? The charged word "misogyny" invites us to begin by scrutinizing gender-based antipathy in artistic experience.
MUS545: Contexts of Composition: Creative Practice in Cultural Perspective: Beyond Misogyny
Barbara White
What would artistic experience free of gender bias look like? Can we even imagine it? The charged word "misogyny" invites us to begin by scrutinizing gender-based antipathy in artistic experience.
Collaborations with varied ensembles and performers from around the world and here at Princeton, presented in concert on the Princeton Sound Kitchen concert series.
Practice in analysis and composition with various pitch organization techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries, including set theory, spectral music, just intonation, and topics from participants' interests. Reading sessions are arranged.
"What if?" tries to understand complex musical surfaces using transcription and transformation. We start by looking at examples from Hans Abrahamsen, Unsuk Chin, Gerard Grisey, Kaija Saariaho and Claude Vivier.
MUS525: Topics in Music from 1400 to 1600: Renaissance Music
Focus on select Renaissance music texts, both manuscript and print, for evidence of how authors borrowed structures, formats, images and other materials while interacting with models and inserting elements that reflected innovations.
MUS510 is for students in the department who wish to gain experience of central importance to their area of study by working outside of the University capacity.
This course examines the role of sound and listening in the constitution of culture. Classes will be evenly split between historical and theoretical analysis, on the one hand, and practice-based explorations of sound, on the other.
This course will examine a variety of manifestations of folk music in different cultures of the world, with a specific emphasis on examples from France and the U.S., and will study key moments of folk music revival from the nineteenth century to t
Songs and Songwriting will offer undergraduates the opportunity to study songs and songcraft in an intense, supportive small-group workshop. Songs are mysterious musical forms.
In this class we will consider a variety of strategies for combining improvisation and notated music, drawing on both contemporary concert music and jazz.
A composition workshop class, in the context of the traditional sound studio. Emphasis will be on the student's creative work, composing both "fixed media" works and live electronic/laptop music.
Examines the origins and development of rock music in the period 1950-1975. The principal focus is on the songs, styles, and artists of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s.
