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Tuesday, Thursday 9:45 - 11:00
117 Borland
3 credits
Instructor: Mark Ballora
ballora@psu.edu
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Office: 227 Theatre Building |
Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00 - 1:00 Friday 1:30 - 2:30 and by appt. |
Phone: 863-3386 |
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Electroacoustic: The transformation of energy between the electrical and acoustic domains.
Philosophy of Electroacoustic Music: "Anything goes -- or at least anything might go, and we won't know until we try." Colby Leider, "Observations Re: Jon Appleton." Journal SEAMUS 17 (1-2):2-3.
What is INART 55? This class will cover the history of music produced from electricity, focusing on the development of musical composition within the contexts of culture and technology. It satisfies three credits of General Education Arts (GA). There is no textbook purchase required for the class. Your guide will be this Web site. Check it -- often. Class sessions will consist of presentations of musical pieces and discussions of these pieces in the historical contexts described on the pages linked from the course schedule. Students will be expected to read the historical material and complete a series of homework assignments that demonstrate an understanding of basic terms.
Homework assignments will consist primarily of crossword puzzle assignments that are based on the on-line history text pages. One homework assignment will be the creation of a graphic timeline describing a short musical work. Listening Journals will be submitted as hard copy at the beginning of class on the due dates. Electronic submissions will not be accepted. A discussion question will be posted on the course ANGEL pages each week and students will be asked to submit a paragraph in response to it. Homework and Listening Journal assignments are due at the BEGINNING of class, as HARD COPY, on the posted due dates. While a grace period of 5-10 minutes will be allowed, the work collected after this time will be penalized as being late. Late work submitted during class will be docked 5%. Work submitted after class on the due date will be docked 25%. Work submitted a day late will be docked 50%. Work will not be accepted two days after the posted due date. Please don't make a game of this, people. We're all adults here. Do your homework and turn it in on time. Crossword puzzles will be graded as a simple ratio of correct answers to total number of answers. Other homework assignments will be graded on a three-tiered scale:
check-plus = outstanding (100%) The idea is that those who have difficulty with the homework won't sink their grades over these assignments - if you have difficulty you can expect a grade of B for this portion of the class grade. As attendance is not required, this class may be serve as a Web-only course for those not wishing to attend class sessions. Although hard copy submissions are required, students not wishing to submit homework in the classroom may bring them to the instructor's office, provided submissions arrive before class time on the due dates. The tests will be in two parts. The first will be a listening component, where students will be asked to identify the composer and title of the listening items for that particular test, as identified on the Listening List page. The second will be vocabulary and terminology, with multiple choice questions asking students to identify correct terms taken from the crossword puzzle assignments.
How are grades calculated? The final grade is based on a percentage of a maximum possible 10,000 points. Homework assignments account for 1800 points, Listening Journals for 2700 points, the tests are worth 3000 points each, and the final exam is worth 2500 points. The final letter grade is entered according to the following point ranges:
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