MUSC 108. Introduction to Music Technology - Fall 2013

Unit 1 Overview

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Lecture

01Six Basic Properties of Sound

the-best-8-bit-video-game-music-from-our-childhood

Vienna Symphonic Library (Full version around $14,000)

Star Wars Theme by John Williams VSL

Reading

01Six Basic Properties of Sound

01Reading-MIDI Basics

History of MIDI

Interesting Uses of MIDI

Interesting Video of MIDI controlled robotic musical instruments

loudness

top-10-loudest-noises

Reference

Reference for Unit 1

Lab

None

Homework

Read this for a General Overview of MIDI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI

Annotated MIDI Specification
Read the following sections:

01Worksheet1

01Worksheet2

01Worksheet2_Example

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Revised John Ellinger, January - September 2013