printer friendly pageMUSIC 251F: Studying Popular Music (FEMGEN 151, FEMGEN 251, MUSIC 151F)
What is "popular" music? How do the tools we use to think about the popular shape our understanding of what it contains? What can popular music tell us about a time period, a community, an artist, an industry, or a country? This course teaches the methodologies utilized in popular music studies, including analysis of sonic, visual, and social media, listener and performance ethnography, critical theory, and engagement with journalism. No musical experience required.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Goldin-Perschbacher, S. (PI)
MUSIC 253: Symbolic Musical Information (CS 275A)
Focus on symbolic data for music applications including advanced notation systems, optical music recognition, musical data conversion, and internal structure of MIDI files.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Sapp, C. (PI)
;
Selfridge-Field, E. (PI)
MUSIC 254: Music Query, Analysis, and Style Simulation (CS 275B)
Leveraging off three synchronized sets of symbolic data resources for notation and analysis, the lab portion introduces students to the open-source Humdrum Toolkit for music representation and analysis. Issues of data content and quality as well as methods of information retrieval, visualization, and summarization are considered in class. Grading based primarily on student projects. Prerequisite: 253 or consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Sapp, C. (PI)
;
Selfridge-Field, E. (PI)
MUSIC 255: Intermedia Workshop (ARTSTUDI 239, MUSIC 155)
Students develop and produce intermedia works. Musical and visual approaches to the conceptualisation and shaping of time-based art. Exploration of sound and image relationship. Study of a wide spectrum of audiovisual practices including experimental animation, video art, dance, performance, non-narrative forms, interactive art and installation art. Focus on works that use music/sound and image as equal partners. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: consent of instructors, and one of
FILMPROD 114,
ARTSTUDI 131, 138, 167, 177, 179, or
MUSIC 123, or equivalent. May be repeated for credit
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors:
DeMarinis, P. (PI)
;
Kapuscinski, J. (PI)
MUSIC 256A: Music, Computing, and Design I: Software Paradigms for Computer Music (CS 476A)
Software design and implementation for computer audio. Strategies, best practices, and tradeoffs in building audio software systems of various sizes (S, M, L, XL), with a focus on interactive (real-time) systems. Lectures examine high-level designs as well as dissect code in a hands-on manner. Course work includes small programming assignments and a final software project. This course is the prerequisite for
MUSIC 256B. Prerequisite: experience in C/C++ and/or Java.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Wang, G. (PI)
MUSIC 256B: Music, Computing, Design II: Mobile Music (CS 476B)
Aesthetic, design, and implementation of mobile music, centered around the modern super smartphones such as the iPhone). Similarities and intrinsic differences between mobile and traditional computing and design for music. Topics include mobile software design, social and cloud computing, mobile interface design, and programming phones, in the service of music. Prerequisite:
MUSIC 256A.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-4
Instructors:
Wang, G. (PI)
MUSIC 257: Neuroplasticity and Musical Gaming
What changes in a musician's brain after hours and years of daily practice? How do skills that make a great violinist transfer to other abilities? Can directed neuroplasticity be used to target skill learning? This course will include fundamentals of psychoacoustics and auditory neuroscience. Focus will be development of video games that use perceptually motivated tasks to drive neural change. Emphasis will be on music, linguistic, and acoustic based skills. Programming experience is highly recommended, but not required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Crum, P. (PI)
;
Tobin, J. (TA)
MUSIC 269: Research in Performance Practices
Directed reading and research. May be repeated for credit a total of 5 times.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 30 units total)
Instructors:
Bar-David, E. (PI)
;
Berger, T. (PI)
;
Dornenburg, J. (PI)
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Instructors:
Bar-David, E. (PI)
;
Berger, T. (PI)
;
Dornenburg, J. (PI)
;
Martin, A. (PI)
;
Myers, H. (PI)
MUSIC 272A: Advanced Piano
Private lessons and group masterclass weekly. May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit
http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 45 units total)
MUSIC 272B: Advanced Organ
May be repeated for credit a total of 14 times. Admission is by audition only. There is a fee for this class. Please visit
http://music.stanford.edu/Academics/LessonSignups.html for class fees and audition information.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
15 times
(up to 45 units total)
Instructors:
Morgan, R. (PI)
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