Lecture Notes

Semester One

• What is Music Composition ?
• The Materials and Parameters of Music Composition
• Notes, Events, Sonic Objects
• Pitch Organisation Methods - Tonality
• Pitch organisation methods - Modalism
• Time, durations and rhythm

Semester Two

• What is Computer Music Composition ?
• Basic Musique Concrète Techniques
• Csound Basics
• Csound Sound Generators
• More on sound generators
• Noise Generators
• Additive synthesis and Sheppard tones
• Sound Modifiers
• More on sound modifers

Stuff

Playing with Pitch-space: a Tone-network program (to run it, you'll need Python, and if you want to try it with sound, PyPortMidi)

Csound examples

• example1
• example2
• example3
• example4