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MUSIC COGNITION (new course in Spring 1995)

		Information meeting (attendance required): 
		Monday, November 7, 1994, 5:00 pm, Muenzinger D430

Instructor	Prof. Andreas Weigend
Time		Wednesday evenings, 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Place 		Muenzinger D430
CU numbers	CSCI 4830 and CSCI 7782
Prerequisite	Consent of Instructor

What does the study of musical patterns tell us about the mind? 
What does the study of the mind tell us about forms of music?

__Contents__

	Sound: Perception and Physics
	Melody: Attention and Memory
	Mental Representations of Music
	Timbre
	Rhythm and Time
	Emotion, Meaning and Humor in Music
	Complexity and Information in Music
	Cultural Contexts of Musical Experience

Anchored in the students' experiences, this course applies a scientific
approach to the understanding of music. It is geared toward an
interdisciplinary audience, bringing together scientists, musicians,
engineers... The course starts with perception: after establishing a
common background in some relevant physics, acoustics, and music, it
draws on auditory effects and illusions on a number of time scales
(pitch, timbre, rhythm). There will be ample of auditory and musical
examples. Grounded in, and made curious by, the direct experience,
questions are developed, more important than the answers.

The goal of this course is not to transfer canned knowledge but to
sharpen the students' thinking and analysis tools, and perhaps--in the
first place--stimulate their interest in intellectual activity.

A background in classical music and in basic science or engineering will
be helpful. Essential is the prior reading of and listening to the
assigned material, as well as active participation in class.

__Course material__

Title:		Music Cognition 
Authors:	Dowling, W. J. and D. L. Harwood
Medium: 	Book and Audiotape
Publisher:	Academic Press, 1986
ISBN:		0-12-221430-7

Title:          Auditory Demonstrations
Medium:	        Compact Disk
Publisher:      Acoustical Society of America, 1989
                Phone: 516-576-2360 or -2357, Fax 516-349-7669

Title:          Thinking in Sound: The cognitive psychology of Human Audition
Editors:        S. McAdams and E. Bigand
Medium: 	Book
Publisher:      Claredon Press, Oxford (OUP), 1993
ISBN:           0-19-852257-6