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This
course allows students to develop musical literacy and, concurrently, to
explore the ways electronic keyboards and computers communicate. Participants
use a new technique for learning musical notation that combines the aural
experience of music with its visual representation on the computer monitor.
 Hands-on
experience with computers and piano keyboards is important, as students
learn the rudiments of music making and notation, composing their own melodies
and rhythms. Basics of MIDI - Musical Instrument Digital Interface, the
communication protocol between musical instruments and computers - will
be covered.
This course
follows a historical progression, examining a few representative masterpieces
of Western classical music. Initially, early music and its relatively
simple melodic organization provide students with an entre to notation,
but as literacy skills increase, more recent compositions come under analysis,
culminating in nineteenth - and twentieth-century works. The music theory
skills acquired here allow the student to advance into Music 260.
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