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LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Course Mechanics Survey of Topics to be Covered Overview of the Structure of Music Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions. Pitch, Tone Quality/Color, Consonance, Melody, Harmony, Tonality, Organization of Voices, Rhythm, Dynamics, Expressive Timing, Tonal and Rhythmic Hierarchies
2	Overview of Auditory Perception and the Time Sense: Pitch, Timbre, Consonance/Roughness, Loudness, Rhythm, Auditory Grouping, Event Structure Overview of the Auditory System: Representation and Processing of Sounds in the Auditory Pathway
3	Musical Acoustics Sound and Vibration, Production of Sounds, Representations of Sound, Waveforms and Power Spectra, Characteristics of Musical Instruments and Human Voices, Similarities and Differences between Speech and Musical Sounds Musical Pitch Acoustic Correlates - Pure and Complex Tones, Acoustics of Instruments Psychophysics - Existence Regions, JNDs, Invariances, Dominance Region, Octaves, Resolved Harmonics Harmonicity and Auditory Grouping; Relative and Absolute Pitch, Introduction to Auditory Representations
4	Psychoacoustically-based Theories of Hearing Theory of Auditory Filters
5	Representation of Pitch in the Auditory System Neurocomputational Models for Pitch Spectral Pattern vs. Temporal Pattern Models Licklider, Terhardt, Grossberg and Cohen, Bharucha Equivalence Classes and Octave Relations; Neural Evidence Pros and Cons
6	Timbre Acoustic Correlates - Spectrum, Time-Frequency Trajectory, Amplitude Dynamics Dimensional Analysis of Timbre Perceptual Spaces (Multidimensional Scaling) Role of Timbre in Defining and Distinguishing Separate Voices, Musical Coloration Neural Correlates, Coding of Spectrum, Attack, Decay, Modulation
7	Harmony I: Consonance, Dissonance, and Roughness Theories: Helmholtz, Stumpf, Plomp, Terhardt Sensory and Hedonic Aspects Neural Correlates (Auditory Nerve, Midbrain, Cortex)
8	Scales and Tuning Systems History, Basic Psychophysics, Scales and Tuning Systems, Role in Music Theory Relations between Auditory and Cultural Factors
9	Music and the Cerebral Cortex. Overview of Functional Role of Cortex in Music Perception and Cognition. Results of Imaging and Lesion Studies. Hemispheric Assymmetries
10	Harmony II: Chords and Keys Perception of Chords, Pitch Multiplicity (Parncutt, Terhardt), Higher Order Structure of Pitch Space (Shepard, Krumhansl), Fundamental Bass, Keys, Major-Minor and Resolved/Unresolved Chords, Tonality Induction, Tonal Schemas/Key Relations, Computational Models (Leman), Neural Correlates of Tonal Relations and Expectations (fMRI, ERP)
11	Presentation and Discussion of Term Projects	Student oral presentations of term projects due
12	Melody Perception of Note Sequences, Existence Region, Melodic Expectation, Melodic Recognition, Melodic Memory, Melodic Grouping Processes (Phrases), Neural Representation of Melody, Problem of Melodic Invariance under Transposition
13	Rhythm I: Rhythm Perception and Production Basic Psychophysics of Rhythm Perception and Production Role of Rhythm in Melodic Recognition and Recall Rhythm II: Computational Models Oscillator Models, Clock Models, Rhythmic Hierarchies
14	Time Perception, Event Structure, and Temporal Expectations Auditory Spectral and Temporal Integration; Chunking of Segments Time Perception (Fraisse, Jones) Auditory Scene Analysis and Organization of Voices Grouping of Sounds – Onset, Harmonicity, Rhythm Sound Streams (Bregman, Deutsch), Polyphony Grouping Processes and Musical Structure
15	Music, Speech and Language: Parallels and Contrasts (Bernstein, Jackendoff)
16	Emotion and Meaning in Music Musical Semantics, Music and Pleasure Music and Long-term Memory
17	Clinical Applications of the Neuropsychology of Music
18	Clinical Issues. Music Exposure and Hearing Loss. Music Perception and Hearing Impairment. Music Perception by Cochlear Implant Users
19	Effects of Cortical Lesions on Music Perception and Cognition Music Therapy: Clinical Problems and Prospects
20	Developmental Psychology of Music A Question of Origins: Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology of Music	Problem set due
21	Music Performance. Organization and Timing of Movement
22	Special Topics: Absolute Pitch, Synesthesia, etc.	Student oral presentations of term projects results due
23	Student Term Project Presentations	Student oral presentations of term projects results due
24	Student Term Project Presentations (cont.)
25	Overview and Recap of Major Themes; Other Special Topics	Final term project papers due