Sample projects:
Special dates:
Thursday
November 11, 2010
7:00-8:30pm
Professor George Baker
(Guest Lecturer for Phys 1320)
Perkins
Chapel:
Organ
Demonstration/Performance:
(Counts for 2 quizzes)
Make-up assignment if you missed Organ Demonstration (Due Nov. 20)
TBD
(class
time: 2:00-3:20 pm)
Room 175 Crow (Georges Auditorium) of the
Business School
Professor
Scott Douglas
From
Pythagoras to Walt Disney:
Demonstration/Performance
TBD
(in
class: 2:00-3:20 pm)
Russ
Berger
President, Berger
Design Group:
Special lecture presentation
Link to Grade sheets: Lecture and Lab
Rotating
Lab Assignments for Students 2010 (PDF)
Link to the PreLab and Lab Assignments (in PDF format)
INSTRUCTORS:
Fredrick I. Olness (office 201 Fondren Science, phone 768-2500)
Thomas W. Tunks (office 209 Perkins Admin. Building, phone 768-3726)
GUEST LECTURER:
George Baker Associate University Organist and Director of University Worship Music at Perkins Chapel
MEETINGS:
LECTURE: Tuesday & Thursday, 2:00 - 3:20, Fondren Science Rm. 158
LAB: Monday (1-3pm), (3-5pm) or (5-7pm), Fondren Science Rm. 60
Labs begin Monday August 30, 2010
BEWARE: On occasion, lecture and lab may be held in different rooms.
TEXT:
Note: Beginning Fall 2008 we are switching to the Backus text:
John Backus (Author)
"The Acoustical Foundations of Music" Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 edition (December 1977)
REFERENCES:
Selected books will be placed on reserve.
GRADES:
Components are:
PHYS 1320 |
MPSY 5340 |
PHYS 3320 |
exams (50% each) daily quizzes (20%) Laboratory (30%) |
exams (50% each) daily quizzes (20%) paper & presentation (20%) Laboratory (10%) |
exams (40% each) daily quizzes (20%) Homework (40%) |
GROUP PROJECT (PHYS 1320 Only): Students can work in groups of 2 or 3 on a project of their choice. Suggestions for projects
PAPER & PRESENTATION (MPSY 5340 Only): Each student will be responsible for writing a paper 10 to 15 pages in length. You may, if you choose, submit your project in the form of a web page(s). The topic should be either the acoustics (psychoacoustics) of your own instrument or another acoustics topic of your choice. Presentations of this type are usually enhanced by a demonstration.
COURSE CONTENT: We will cover both the acoustics (physical sound properties) and the psychoacoustics (psychological, perceptual properties) of music. Topics will include sound in general, sound of musical instruments (including voice), sound characteristics of rooms, electronic production (synthesis) and reproduction of sound.
DEMONSTRATIONS: Demonstrations will be done in class sessions throughout the semester. You are encouraged to make suggestions about interesting ways to demonstrate the phenomena we are studying. Each class discussion will FOLLOW the reading of appropriate material, meaning that you will be expected to have completed the reading PRIOR to the class session for which it is listed. The same for tape listening assignments.
ASSIGNMENTS: Various problem sheets will be distributed for you to complete. Your completion of the problems is optional, and will be for your own benefit. As such, the problem sheets will not be graded. Other assignments, such as completing lab tasks and doing outside investigations will be considered under "participation".