Class videos will be posted about two hours after each class at: http://echo360.uml.edu/heines2016/comp-mued2120.html
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| No. | Class Date | Reading | Class Topic | ||||||||
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| May 15 | Academic Calendar Note: University Commencement | ||||||||||
| May 7 | Academic Calendar Note: Spring semester examinations end | ||||||||||
| May 2 | Academic Calendar Note: Spring semester examinations begin | ||||||||||
| May 1 | Academic Calendar Note: Reading day | ||||||||||
| Apr 29 | Academic Calendar Note: Last day of Spring 2016 semester classes and last
day for students to complete work for incomplete Fall 2015 courses (professors must
file grades by this date) | ||||||||||
| 27 | Apr 28 |
Final Project Performances
Note: Last class meeting — you *MUST* submit your responses to the reflective questions for Assignment No. 8 by Saturday, April 30 | |||||||||
| 26 | Apr 26 |
Work on Final Projects with Individual Help plus Course Wrap-Up and Assessment
Note: Prof. Heines will lead this class, as Prof. Greher will be away at a conference. | |||||||||
| Apr 22 | Academic Calendar Note: Monday Class Schedule | ||||||||||
| 25 | Apr 21 | Class Devoted to Working on Final Projects with Individual Help | |||||||||
| 24 | Apr 19 |
Class Devoted to Working on Final Projects with Individual Help
Academic Calendar Note: Faculty advising period for the Fall 2016
semester ends Last day for seniors who anticipate graduating after the Fall 2016 semester to file “Completion of Degree Requirements” forms, also known as “Declaration of Intent to Graduate” (DIG) forms | |||||||||
| Apr 18 | Academic Calendar Note: Patriots’ Day — University Closed | ||||||||||
| 23 | Apr 14 | Class Devoted to Working on Assignment No. 7 and Individual Discussions of Final Projects with Individual Help | |||||||||
| 22 | Apr 12 |
Addditional Features of Pencil Code and ABC Notation (continued) and
Introduction to the Final Course Project: Assignment No. 8
Academic Calendar Note: Student registration begins for Fall 2016 semester
courses via SiS student self-service based on enrollment appointments | |||||||||
| 21 | Apr 7 | Addditional Features of Pencil Code and ABC Notation | |||||||||
| Apr 6 | Academic Calendar Note: Last day for students to withdraw from
courses with a grade of “W” | ||||||||||
| 20 | Apr 5 | Cheat Sheet | Pencil Code, ABC Notation, and Assignment No. 7 (continued) | ||||||||
| Apr 4 | Academic Calendar Note: Faculty advising period for the
Fall 2016 semester begins | ||||||||||
| 19 | Mar 31 | Cheat Sheet | Introduction to Pencil Code, ABC Notation, and Assignment No. 7 | ||||||||
| 18 | Mar 29 | Transposition (conclusion) and Synchronization Using the Scratch Timer | |||||||||
| 17 | Mar 24 | Lists Revisited and Introduction to Transposition and Assignment No. 6 | |||||||||
| 16 | Mar 22 | Review of List Concepts from Assignment No. 5 | |||||||||
| Mar 18 | Academic Calendar Note: Spring Break Ends | ||||||||||
| Mar 14 | Academic Calendar Note: Spring Break Begins — No Classes This Week | ||||||||||
| 15 | Mar 10 |
Introduction to Playing and Transposing Music Using Lists
Note: Prof. Heines will lead this class, as Prof. Greher will be away at a conference. | |||||||||
| 14 | Mar 8 | Revisiting Conditional Structures and Their Use in Assignment No. 5 | |||||||||
| 13 | Mar 3 | Working with Intervals (continued): Automatic Generation of 2nds and 5ths | |||||||||
| 12 | Mar 1 |
Introduction to Intervals and Assignment No. 4: Generating 2nds and 5ths Using Variables
Note: Prof. Greher will lead this class, as Prof. Heines will be away at a conference. | |||||||||
| 11 | Feb 25 | Reintroduction to Scratch and Its Facilities for Recorded and MIDI Sounds (continued) | |||||||||
| 10 | Feb 23 | Reintroduction to Scratch and Its Facilities for Recorded and MIDI Sounds | |||||||||
| 9 | Feb 18 | Major Discussion of the Relationship Between Computing and Music and Brief Introduction to Scratch | |||||||||
| Feb 16 | Academic Calendar Note: Monday Class Schedule — this class will not meet | ||||||||||
| Feb 15 |
Academic Calendar Note: Presidents’ Day — University Closed | ||||||||||
| 8 | Feb 11 |
Working with Sounds in Audacity (continued) and
Creating Song Flowcharts
Note: Prof. Heines will lead this class, as Prof. Greher will be away. | |||||||||
| 7 | Feb 9 | Working with Sounds in Audacity (continued) and Introduction to Song Flowcharting and Assignment No. 3 | |||||||||
| 6 | Feb 4 |
Audacity Guides | Working with Sounds in Audacity (continued) | ||||||||
| 5 | Feb 2 |
Audacity Guides | Presentation of MaKey MaKey Board Instruments (conclusion), Working with Sounds in Audacity, and Introduction to Assignment No. 2 | ||||||||
| Feb 1 | Academic Calendar Note: Last day for registered students to add a
course with a permission number or drop a course without record | ||||||||||
| 4 | Jan 28 | Presentation of MaKey MaKey Board Instruments | |||||||||
| 3 | Jan 26 | Creating Instruments with the MaKey MaKey Board and Scratch (continued) | |||||||||
| Jan 25 | Academic Calendar Note: Last day for undergraduate students to
add courses without a permission number | ||||||||||
| 2 | Jan 21 | Creating Instruments with the MaKey MaKey Board | |||||||||
| 1 | Jan 19 | Syllabus |
Brief Course Orientation and Introduction to Creating Instruments with the MaKey MaKey Board
Academic Calendar Note: First day of Spring 2016 semester classes | ||||||||
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