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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Musical Time

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21M.542
Free, no sign-up neededJanuary IAP 2010English
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This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of three broad topics concerning music in relation to time. Music as Architecture: the creation of musical shapes in time; Music as Memory: how musical understanding depends upon memory and reminiscence, with attention to analysis of musical structures; and Time as the Substance of Music: how different disciplines such as philosophy and neuroscience view the temporal dimension of musical processes and/or performances.

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