Screen shot of the interface of Impromptu software displaying the theme to "The Lone Ranger." (Image © Oxford University Press.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Jeanne Bamberger
MIT Course Number
21M.113
As Taught In
Fall 2002
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course features projects which are completed using the computer music authoring environment Impromptu. An open-source version of Impromptu is available in the tools section of this site.
Course Description
The goal of this class is practical: to interrogate, make explicit, and thus to develop the powerful musical intuitions that are at work as you make sense of the music all around you. Reflecting, we will ask how this knowledge develops in ordinary and extraordinary ways.