Music 17: Course Schedule

 WEEK  TOPICS Suggested EMT Reading Due Dates

1

Lab Orientation, Course Website; MacOS, iMac, X5 1-23; 25-35  

2

Computer and Networking concepts;
Digital audio basics
46-49; 57-67; 81-95  

3

Digital audio software and hardware 110-114; 118-126; 127-130; 133-137 Assignment 1 (iTunes) due Thursday 9/27

4

Effects, loops, multitracking;
MIDI basics
213-221  

5

MIDI sequencing 229-243

6

MIDI hardware concepts;
Digital audio workstation software
243-251; 304-310 Assignment 2 (GarageBand) due Tuesday 10/16; (Fall Break: NO CLASS Thursday)

7

Review for midterm AOTA Midterm Exam Thursday 10/25

8

Music notation software concepts 331-339; 368-374  

9

Notation software (continued) 397-402  

10

Digital video  

Assignment 3 (Finale) due Thursday 11/15

   
NO CLASSES

11

Work on Final project    

12

Final Project presentations   Final Project due Tuesday 12/4