Developing Musical Structures
As taught in: Fall 2002
Screen shot of the interface of Impromptu software displaying the theme to "The Lone Ranger." (Image © Oxford University Press.)
Instructors:
Prof. Jeanne Bamberger
MIT Course Number:
21M.113
Level:
Undergraduate
Course Highlights
This course features projects which are completed using the computer music authoring environment Impromptu. An open-source version of Impromptu is available in the tools section of this site.
Course Description
The goal of this class is practical: to interrogate, make explicit, and thus to develop the powerful musical intuitions that are at work as you make sense of the music all around you. Reflecting, we will ask how this knowledge develops in ordinary and extraordinary ways.
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.
