Course Information

Teaching Assistant

• Devansh Zurale dzurale@ucsd.edu

Meeting Time and Place

Meeting Dates: 2020/3/31 - 2020/6/8

	Time
Lecture:	TuTh 12:30PM -1:50PM via Zoom
Office hour:	Th 2:00-300PM, or by appointment (Smyth/Zurale)
Final presentations	M 11:30AM-2:30PM, 6/8/2020 (scheduled final exam)

COVID 19: Spring 2020 will be available BOTH synchronously and asynchronously.

Course Description

Survey of psychoacoustical phenomena, theories of hearing, and their relation to musical perception and cognition. Techniques of psychoacoustical experimentation.

Prerequisites

Music 170 or 171 (or permission by instructor).

Grading

• Quizzes (3 X 15% each): 45%
• Selected paper presentation: 15%
• Assignments/Discussions: 20%
• Final project 20%

Required Textbooks

• Perry R Cook (editor). Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics (available on campus here, off campus through https://vpn.ucsd.edu)

• Brian Moore. An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing (available here).

• Music 175 on-line notes.

Quizzes

Quizzes will be available on Canvas and will based on lectures, assigned readings, and student presentations.

Important Dates

• Thursday, April 9, 2020: Paper sign-up;

• Tuesday, April 21, 2020: Quiz 1;

• Thursday, May 7, 2020: Project proposals;

• Thursday, May 14, 2020: Quiz 2;

• Thursday, June 4, 2020: Quiz 3;

• Monday June 8, 2020, 11:30AM-2:30PM: Final project presentations;