Faculty: Huy Nguyen
Description: A brief overview of the mathematical foundations of music. The course offers non-math students an opportunity to explore the technological aspect of music, while offering non-music students a hands-on experience creating and/or performing music. Topics include: I. The physics of sound; The math behind musical concepts such as tones, pitch, tuning, intonation, harmony, timbre, harmonic series, Fourier series; The mechanisms behind some common music instruments; Live demonstrations of select instruments. II. Basic Music Theory: how to read musical notations, time/key signatures, tempo, scales, modes, chords, progression, transposition; (Very) Brief history of some music genres. III. Concepts in Audio Engineering: how microphones/speakers/radios work; analog vs digital; vinyls/tapes/cds; sampling, encoding, compressing; how to record/mix using a Digital Audio Workstation (GarageBand)
Meeting Information: 01/02/2023-01/24/2023 M-F 09:30AM – 12:30PM, Room to be Announced
Section Requisites: None
Course Fee: N/A
Out-of-Pocket Expenses: N/A