Music Technology 2003-2004 Year Overview

Organization

Student Info Form

Due 9/3

Course Outline Parent Signature

Due by 9/10

Placement Exam

Completed by 9/10

Classroom Technology

Web Access

Free Internet dialup available from LAUSDnet

Internet Test

Due by 9/17

AUP

Due by 9/17

E-mail Attachments

Tutorial when AUP stickers & e-mail accounts are received

Subject matter Literacy

Reading Groups/Writing Assignments

Questionaire for Small Group Discussion

Cornell Notes

Cornell Notes grading rubric

EM Philosophy

Music History Timeline

Exam by 10/3

Where IS the Music?

Cornell Notes due 10/7

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say - VHS

Cornell Notes due 10/14

Exploration of Everyday Sound

Cornell Notes due 10/16

Everyday Sounds in Your Music Collection

3 examples due 10/20

Organization

Notebook check for "Back to School Night" 10/23

Print this page as a "Table of Contents"

Modulations - VHS

Cornell notes due 10/27

Acoustical Physics

The Soundry Website

Audio Alternative

Exam by 10/31

Health & Safety

Hearing & Hearing Loss Prevention

Analog Recording Basics

Capturing and Mixing the Audio Signal

Exam by 11/10

PA Construction & Effects

Tape Recording & Multitracking

The Making of Sgt. Pepper - VHS

Musique Concrete

Forbidden Planet - VHS

Exam by 11/14

Literacy

Bibliographies

Sgt. Pepper Term Paper

Extra Credit due by 12/2

Digital Music Basics

Binary Commands

Basic MIDI Signal Path

Beginner's Guide to MIDI

MIDI Made Easy - VHS

Exam by 12/13

Mary Had a Little Lamb

First workstation activity

Digitizing the Analog Signal

Mary's MIDI Lamb Gets Burned...to a CD

Project due by 12/20

Review and Exposition Assignments

Sound Synthesis & Sampling

Sections A - I due every 2 weeks