107 學年第 1 學期 開設課程

本課程的目標有二 :
一、使在和聲與曲式學上程度稍弱之新生，加強其音樂知性方面統合的能力，以適應音樂所上其它的課程。
二、為體現一位完整經驗的音樂家而準備 --- 即創作、理論、作曲合一。

本課程分為兩個部份：
一是調性基本理論，包含和聲與分析。引導學生著重聲部導進 (voice-leading) 部份，以結構 (structure) 和擴充 (prolongation) 的觀點去分析調性音樂作品，希望學生不再視調性音樂為一連串孤立和絃的接合，而應探究其意義與功能，視整體為一個有機體 (an organic unity)。
二是風格寫作部份：在於突顯和經驗西方藝術音樂 ( art music )及其一些主要的概念，並藉用它們來創作。這些概念包括 :
1.主題的呈現方式 : sentence / period ，和其它…。
2.Idea作為整體質 (totality) 和其論述 (discourse) 之體現。
3.奏鳴曲中不可或缺的結構事件功能角色 (主題的敘述、發展、對照、結尾…)。
4.音型化 (figuration) 、單一和弦的擴充、結構和聲進行的擴充 (structural harmony prolongation)。
5.音形作為符號 (sign)、作為風格 ( style )、作為題旨(topic)。
6.發展變奏的概念與技巧。

課程強調做中學(learning from doing): 從理論至實作(創作)、跨域整合(interdisciplinary studies):電腦技術 V.S.音樂藝術。
Path to Goal: 從 Open Ears至 Happy New Ears!!
本課程主要以聲音的DSP(Digital Signal Processing)數位處理技術以及DSP技術在數位音樂剪接、編輯、拼貼、以及(最終)在實驗創作上的應用為主。學生將修習非線性(non-linear)剪接、所謂之傳統磁帶技術(Tape Techniques,現已轉移為數位化技巧)、電腦聲音合成(computer sound synthesis)、聲音空間技巧(Spatialization of Sound)，以及基礎聲音後製(post production)等技術。技術包含 Speed Change、Reversal、Looping、Cutting、Splicing、filtering、FM Syntheses 、Granular Synthesis、mixing、reverberating、panning、doppler effects、Shepard Tone 等。最終，嘗試使用多音軌(multitracker)軟件如Audition(1.5版本以上)進行數位聲音或數位音樂之組織、拼貼與創作，完成期中小品與期末作品。
課程尚包括電腦/數位音樂經典作品欣賞與分析(listening and analysis)、數位音樂相關美學與文獻知識(aesthetics and literature )。
透過此一理論、美學與實務技巧兼重之課程設計，培養學生電腦/數位音樂創作技巧，以及科技與音樂藝術跨域結合作為思想感情表達的省思。

Our main tasks are professional and academic writings; the skills involved are bibliographical, evaluative, and communicative. The aim is to train ourselves to be a up-to-date musician-scholar-intellectual, able to make music and make sense of music creatively and critically.

Our course is designed as a cycle of four stages:

1. REFLECTING: We'll start our intellectual journey by "musing" on who we are and what we do. These will be expressed practically in our CVs and performance portfolio (posters, bios, program lists and notes).
2. RESEARCHING: Then we'll learn the craft of thesis-writing thru evaluating and emulating selected examples.
3. REPORTING: And we'll meet our "audience" by written and oral presentations, considering the aspects of form and style.
4. REVIEWING: Finally, we'll come to full circle with reflecting and rethinking of who we are and how to become who we want to be. The journey has just begun...

On the whole, we'll be doing a lot of thinking, reading, talking and writing, in and out of the classroom. Our TAs will arrange with you to hold a weekly group tutorial hour. In addition, please don't hesitate to make an appointment with me at my office hour. Concrete "products" at the end of the semester will be a mini-conference and an anthology of selected written work.

(After the more theoretical first semester we'll be getting more practical with the different sources and resources [notational, audio-visual] in the second semester, offered as an elective course.)