Content Outline

The Breakdown of Tonality

  1. An Extended History of Sound Arts & Technology
  2. Western Music 1700-1900
  3. Experimentalists
  4. The First Electronic Instruments
  5. EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE

Pioneers

  1. Tape Pioneers
  2. Synthesizer & Computer Pioneers
  3. John Cage and Indeterminacy
  4. EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE

The Studio as a Tool

  1. Synthesizer Development
  2. Multitrack Tape Composition
  3. Software as an Instrument
  4. Minimalism
  5. EXAM 3 STUDY GUIDE

Issues in the Digital World

  1. MIDI
  2. Responding to a Media-Based Culture
  3. Advanced Directions
  4. EXAM 4 STUDY GUIDE