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Catalog 2025-2026

MPA 305 - Measuring Music


Interdisciplinary inquiry into the quantitative dimension of sound and music. Topics include sound waves, sound perception, tuning, harmonic spectra (via Fourier analysis), music computation, and music notation, with creative and digital signal processing applications. Students design music notations and learn to edit and program electronic music with contemporary software tools.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE  Area 1A and 1B and 1C and 2 with a C- or better)
General Education: UD2 Math Concepts&Quant Reasoning
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Units: 3