Course: Computer Skills for Musicology

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Course title Computer Skills for Musicology
Course code KMU/PPC
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Karlík Filip, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Mastering the basic programs needed for musicological practice. 1. Introduction to computer skills for musicology 2. Historical excursion into the history of electroacoustic music. 3. Introduction to DAW (digital audio workstation). 4. Basics of working with Audacity programme, music formats, and recording media. 5. Room for papers, or students? presentations of other music softwares. 6. Introduction to Protools 7. Working with modes and other Protools tools. 8. Using regions and groups in Protools. 9. Using MIDI and automatization in Protools. 10. Individual work on assigned theme music in Protools. 11. Sound engineering in Protools

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Demonstration
  • Attendace - 26 hours per semester
  • Homework for Teaching - 24 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The basic aim of the course is to introduce students to the basics of computers, in the second semester of the acquisition work with hardware and software primarily intended to create, edit, playback and archiving of audio and musical material.
Acquisition of the basic programs needed for musicological practice. Working with text, creating presentations controls of basic database programs and databases. Ability to control software for work with sound and musical material.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Analysis of Activities ( Technical works)

The selection options are: 1. Paper on music software 2. Creation of further specified short theme music in Protools.
Recommended literature
  • Forró, D.:. Domácí nahrávací studio.
  • Forró, D.:. Midi komunikace v hudbě periodika (Keyboard, Soundcheck, Muzikus..).
  • Forró, D.:. Počítač a hudba.
  • Forró, D.:. Svět MIDI.
  • Grace, R.:. Hudba a zvuk na počítači.
  • Havelka, F.:. Muzikolog a počítač. Olomouc 1999.
  • Městecký, P. a kol. (2002). Microsoft Office 2000 a XP. Podrobná uživatelská příručka . Praha.
  • periodika:. Keyboard, Soundcheck, Muzikus...


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