From: Kevin Austin (kevin.austin@videotron.ca)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2007 - 08:05:23 EDT
Thanks.
MUSI 200 is not part of the revised Major, and is longer offered.
MUSI 200 has been replaced by a 6 credit ea ear-training course
(through ASA methods) and a kind of introductory "theory thru MIDI &
sequencing" course. In second year, a six-credit ea ear-training
course (more detailed and with much more psychoacoustics) and a
six-credit MIDI-stration course replace INMS 209, 251, 252. The two
ear-training courses cover many methods of sound to graphic
representations, until now seen in EAMT 205.
The focus has shifted from keyboard skills, sight-singing & knowing
all the key signatures to aural capacity in many areas. Theory is
covered through composition and the Concordia Dictation CDs are the
basis for pitch recognition skills.
In the design of the changes, this frees up about 30%-40% of EAMT 205
as the detailed "physics / psychophysics" of sound is handled as a
separate discipline standing on the work codified in ASA.
In ea ear-training I there are the 'four technical studies', which
are repeated in ear-training II in a more sophisticated fashion --
and again in 406!
These four technical studies, amplitude, spectrum, reverberation and
pitch/time shift will be covered both as technical processes, and as
specific aural skill processes. This is designed in complement with
the (revised) recording course which will provide the 'acoustics'
portion. The ear-training courses will develop the rapid and detailed
aural skills required by the ea craftsperson or studio engineer.
Ear-training classes will focus on perception / cognition and the
exercises and examples will be detailed in their focus on the
development of the refined ear. Among the skills will be the
estimation of compression ratios, reverb time, eq settings, and the
detection of spectral elements in sounds and in the transformation of
samples.
The course outlines are being worked on as you ask.
Best
Kevin
>Still a good course to take if your music skills are a bit on the low side.
>
>I think understanding traditionnal music theory and having good ear training
>skills is very important in sound recording and electroacoustics.
>
>A keyboard is still useful to me when I can't figure out the pitch (Hz) of a
>sound by ear. A quick turn to my keyboard and voila! Another way would be to
>use a spectrogram, HEY! A program that does provide spectral analysis is
>another tool I greatly appreciated during my degree.
>
>JP
>
>Quoting Greg Eustace <greg.eustace@gmail.com>:
>
>> Ah, this is no longer part of the program I am told. Please disregard.
>>
>> On 7/29/07, Greg Eustace <greg.eustace@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > You might want to buy a keyboard to get through Music 200. The keyboard
>> > section of the course accounted for 15% of your grade when I did it. If
>> you
>> > don't own one you can use the ones in the practice modules (there are
>> about
>> > 10 of them which everyone shares). Also, a keyboard could help with your
>> EA
>> > work as well.
>> >
>> > On 7/27/07, Todd ? <life_is_punctuation@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > i was just curious as to what students found to be important materials
>> > > when going through eamt?
>> > >
>> > > if you have got any suggestions at all, whether it be a 0.7mm pencil or
>> > > $2000 laptop please let me know!
>> > >
>> > > thanks to you all,
>> > > todd
>> > >
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