ISE599: Engineering Approaches to Music Perception and Cognition

Week 1 (15 Jan 2003): An Overview of Music Concepts



  1. Student summaries of the first class

  2. Submitted writings on assigned readings:

    • Notes on the first reading
      "Computational Modeling of Music Cognition: Problem or Solution?"
      by Desain, Honing, vanThienen and Windsor, Music Perception vol. 16, 1998.

    • Notes on the second reading
      "Musical Composition and Artificial Intelligence: Some precedents and prospects"
      by Jean-Claude RISSET, keynote speech in ICMAI 2002.

  3. References to introductory music theory:

    • "Developing Musical Intuitions
      -- A Project-Based Introduction to Making and Understanding Music"
      by Jeanne Bamberger. Oxford University Press © 2000.
      http://web.mit.edu/jbamb/www/dmi.html
      ISBN 0-19-510571-0.

    • "Music Theory Handbook"
      by Marjorie Merryman. Thomson Learning © 1996.
      ISBN 0-15-502662-3.

      "Tonal Harmony," Fourth Edition
      by Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne. McGrawHill © 2000.
      http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/music/kosta
      ISBN 0-07-241570-3.




Posted 22 Jan 2003.

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