Music 220a, Assignment #3

This week you are to work on both high and low levels of composition.

Synthesis Project

Extend your additive sytnthesis instrument to allow for frequency skew to each partial of your additive synthesis instrument.

Algorithm Project

Choose one of the following works:

Ligeti: Etude 1 (recommended for CCRMA grad students)

Translate the score into item streams. Be as concise with your representation as possible.

J. S. Bach: Invention in E-major (2-Part) (for MST and others)

Tranlate the upper voice into item streams. Try to capture motives and transformations.