COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NEW TENDENCIES IN MUSIC TECHNOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MTS 2002 NEW TENDENCIES IN MUSIC TECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Music Technology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR CIHAN IŞIKHAN

Offered to

Music Technology

Course Objective

Some of the main fields of music tehnology are sound recording, reinforcement, broadcasting and music composing. However, music tehnology has some different disciplines or fields according with technology and its areas. This course covers main topics other than those different disciplines.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to comprehend data collection techniques
2   Analysing different studies
3   Current trends in music tehnology
4   To be able to recognize the future technological formations
5   To be able to comprehend other main areas of music technology

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 About course
2 Data correction techniques: Library, eBooks, web
3 New tendincies: Discussion-researching-planning
4 Royality and Plagiarism of Music I
5 Royality and Plagiarism of Music II
6 Music information retrieval: Shazam, soundhound etc.
7 New dimensions of music industry: Music 4.1
8 Computational Music Technology and MatLab
9 Pitch Detecting Systems
10 OSC systems
11 New units: LUFS etc.
12 Spatial audio: Atmos
13 Discussion and Conclusion
14 Midterm Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Rosen R. (2008), Music and Copyright, Oxford University Press
Owsinski B. (2016), Music 4.1, Hal Leonard Books.
Ghias A., & Logan J., & Chamberlin D., & and Smith B. C. (1995). Query by Humming: Musical Information Retrieval in an Audio Database. Proceedings of the Third ACM International Conference on Multimedia . (231-236).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Teaching some researches deal with course material

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Out of a hundred points

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is forbidden to take for students who come after starting time of the course until an interval will be given. At the end of each lecture topics will be covered in the next lesson and the students are offered as a subject of their studies. The course begins before the first presentation of the studies.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

https://www.isikhancihan.com/
cihan.isikhan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

All of the time using via contact details

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Student Presentations 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 5 50
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 120

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18
LO.1
LO.21
LO.354333113545
LO.4441
LO.54