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About this course
The Master of Science in Music and Technology gives students the freedom to push the boundaries of their expertise. Students accepted into this program have presented substantial work outside the typical four-year-degree, and excel in music or some aspect of technology, demonstrating a aptitude and desire to explore a specialized are with significant depth.
With a customizable wealth of classes to choose from, students are able to explore new educational directions while honing their current talent, and are expected to produce original work through a public performance and written thesis.
As the background and needs of students are highly varied, specific course selection is supervised by the student's advisor, working in concert with an Advising Committee composed of representatives from the School of Music, the School of Computer Science, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Working closely with expert faculty, previous students have pursued study in technologically augmented performance; computer music systems and technology; music signal processing; acoustics, sound recording, and music instrument design; and music cognition and perception.
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Eligibility Criteria
In addition to the application, Music and Technology faculty reviews applicant portfolios containing the applicant(s) original work, which may include:
- Audio recordings of performances or compositions or that you engineered
- Video recordings of performances or compositions or that you produced or edited
- Software listings for programs that you have written
- Screenshots of your software or other creative work
- Web pages you have created.
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Course Modules
Students are expected to have a total of 144 units(roughly 36 units per semester) as follows:
60 Units - Core courses identified by the Graduate Advisory Committee, including at least 24 units of music and 24 of CS or ECE
24 Units - Support courses chosen by the student
18 Units - Thesis research
4 Units - Music and Technology Seminar (1 unit per semester)
26 Units - Electives
Course list
Computer Music Systems and Technology
15-322 Introduction to Computer Music
15-323 Computer Music Systems and Information Processing
60-439 Advanced SIS: Hybrid Instrument Building
Signal Processing
18-290 Signals and Systems
18-491 Digital Signal Processing
18-551 Digital Communication and Signal Processing System Design
18-792 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
18-798 Image, Video, and Multimedia
Music Information Retrieval
11-755 Machine Learning for Signal Processing
15-826 Multimedia Databases and Data Mining
Machine Learning
10-601 or 10-701 Machine Learning
10-705 Intermediate Statistics
Acoustics/Recording/Instrument Design
18-493 Electro-acoustics
57-947 Sound Recording
57-948 Editing and Mastering
57-949 Multi-track Recording
48-726 Acoustics and Lighting
Music Cognition / Perception
85-356/85-756 Music and Mind: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Sound
85-785 Auditory Perception: Sense of Sound
57-377 Psychology of Music
Music Theory
57-441 Analysis of 19th Century Music
57-442 Analytical Techniques
57-430 Music of Iran
57-605 Theory and Analysis for Graduate Students
57-760 Schenkerian Analysis
57-934 Advanced Analytic Techniques
57-968 Post-tonal Theory and Analysis
57-954 Shaping Time in Performance
57-615 Independent Study in Computer Music
57-570 Music and Technology Seminar
57-571 Music & Technology Project
57-572 Music & Technology Project
57-970 Music and Technology Seminar
Music History
57-606 Music History for Graduate Students 1
57-609 Music History for Graduate Students 2
57-209 The Beatles
79-345 The Roots of Rock and Roll
Composition
57-721 Studio composition
57-968 20th and 21st Century Compositional Techniques
57-27x Orchestration
Performance
57-459 (Graduate) Score Reading/Keyboard Harmony
57-xxx Technologically-assisted performance independent study
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How to Apply
In addition to the application and portfolio, applicants must submit the following materials to the School of Music:
- Three letters of recommendation;
- Forward Official Undergraduate Transcripts (desired GPA 3.0)
- Forward Official GRE Score Report
- Forward Official TOEFL scores (applicable of you are an International Student and your native tongue is something other than English)
- Institution Code: 2074, Department Code: 19
- Minimum iBT score: *84
- Subset requirements:
22 in Reading
22 in Listening
18 in Speaking
22 in Writing
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