Music 151: An Introduction to Music Perception and Cognition

Professor: Jonathan Berger (brg@ccrma.stanford.edu), office hours: MW 12–2pm by appt.
TA: Miriam Kolar (kolar@ccrma.stanford.edu), office hours: MW 9–10am
Class meeting: MW 10–11:50am in the CCRMA Classroom (Knoll 217)

Schedule

Additional announcements, materials, and details posted on Coursework.

Week	Date	Topics, Readings								Assignment/Project Work


1 	W 4/2	Questioning music behavior							Choose question	

2 	M 4/7	Hearing and listening;	 							Submit question & hypothesis
		Pitch structures: sensory consonance and dissonance; roughness	
	W 4/9	- Guest Lecture: Pantelis Vassilakis	 					Lab: Spectra and Beats
				"Culture-dependent emotional reactions to music: 
				auditory roughness, cultural background, 
				and musical tension-release judgments."

3	M 4/14	Attention and arousal								Submit hypothesis/initial literature review (due 4/18)
	W 4/16	Memory - Guest Lecture: Rebecca Schaefer, Radboud U. Nijmegen, Netherlands	Reading (on Coursework): Different Interference Effects
		SUPPLEMENTAL READING: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~rens/icmpc04.pdf
				
4	M 4/21	Time and rhythm									Reading: Experimental Design 
	W 4/23											Lab: Time and Spectral Structure in Speech and Melody Recognition (due 4/23)
	W 4/23	*Special Events: Lunch with Evelyn Glennie; Concert 8pm in Memorial Auditorium					
					
5	M 4/28	Consonance and dissonance; Timbre and texture					Singing in the Shower assigned (due 5/15)
	W 4/30	Timbre - Guest Lecture: Hiroko Terasawa, CCRMA PhD Candidate			Submit initial experiment design (due 4/30)
		READING: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/10331/32894/01540234.pdf
		In-Class Discussion of Experiment Design (present short summary)		In class, present short summary of experiment design
		
6	M 5/5	Project Workshop								Meet w/JB or MK; Finalize experiment design; schedule experiment pilot
	W 5/7	Grouping									Lab: Musical Ambiguity (due 5/11)

7	M 5/12	Guest Lecture: John Chowning DAFX paper (assigned Week 1)			Take-Home Midterm (given 5/11, due 5/13)
	W 5/14	Emotion 									Schedule and run experiment pilot
	F 5/16	*Special Event: Music and the Brain Symposium
	S 5/17	*Special Event: Music and the Brain Symposium

8	M 5/19	Expectation									Run experiment pilot
	W 5/21	In-Class Experiments								Run experiment pilot 

9	M 5/26	NO CLASS, Memorial Day Holiday
	W 5/28	Course wrap-up									Analyze data, draft presentation
	
10	M 6/2	Project Presentations
	W 6/4	Project Presentations

Exam	F 6/6	Project Writeup due by 12 noon