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Here's the Catalog Program Description. For daily details, please see our Moodle site. (Moodle is a secure site, available to registered students who have completed the week 1 workshop.)
Be sure to order your texts now, from your favorite online source or local bookstore. Do not assume the College Bookstore will have the texts available.
| Required Texts | |||
| Ashton, Anthony | Harmonograph | ISBN-10: 0802714099 | $12.00 |
| Brecht, Bertolt | Life of Galileo | ISBN-10: 0143105388 | $12.00 |
| Fauvel, John et al. | Music and Mathematics: from Pythagoras to Fractals | ISBN-10: 0199298939 | $34.59 |
| Frayn, Michael | Copenhagen | ISBN-10: 0385720793 | $12.95 |
| Lem, Stanislaw | His Master's Voice | ISBN-10: 0810117312 | $14.95 |
| Loy, Gareth | Musimathics, Vol. 1 | ISBN-10: 0262122820 | $52.00 |
| Sagan, Carl | Contact | ISBN-10: 0671004107 | $7.99 |
Suggested Texts |
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| Dodge, Charles | Computer Music | ISBN-10: 0028646827 | $101.95 |
| Giancoli, Douglas | Physics: Principles with Applications, Vol. I (pub. Pearson / Prentice Hall) | ISBN-10: 013035256X | $97.44 |
| Harder, Paul | Basic Materials in Music Theory | ISBN-10: 0132208695 | $96.40 |
| Oualline, Steve | Practical C Programming (3rd Ed.) | ISBN-10: 1565923065 | $34.95 |
| Week 1: | Sept 29 | Tuesday: | Loy: Chap 1 | |
| Reading: Galileo (Bertolt Brecht) | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | Moodle and team workshops | |||
| Week 2: | Oct 6 | Tuesday: | Loy: Chap 1 | |
| Galileo (DVD) | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | Sem II: Reading: Lem: His Master's Voice
Physics of Sound workshop |
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| Week 3: | Oct 13 | Tuesday: | Loy: Chap 2 | |
| Reading: Lem: His Master's Voice | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | Physics of Sound workshop | |||
| Week 4: | Oct 20 | Tuesday: | Loy: Chap 2 and 3 | |
| Reading: Contact (Carl Sagan) | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | Reading: Contact (Carl Sagan) | |||
| Week 5: | Oct 27 | Tuesday: | Loy: Chap 3 | |
| Movie: Contact (Carl Sagan) | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | Physics of Sound workshop | |||
| Week 6: | Nov 3 | Tuesday | mid-quarter Evals | |
| No class rest of week (Faculty retreat) | ||||
| Week 7: | Nov 10 | Tuesday: | Loy: Chap 4 | |
| Reading Copenhagen | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | Copenhagen (DVD) | |||
| Nov 16 | Sunday | Olympia Symphony Orchestra | ||
| Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 and Symphony #7 | ||||
| Week 8: | Nov 17 | Tuesday: | Loy Chap 4 and 5 | |
| reading: Harmonograph | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | Physics of Sound workshop (Lissajous figures) | |||
| Nov 24 | Thanksgiving Week holiday | |||
| Week 9: | Dec 1 | Tuesday: | Loy: Chap 5 reading | |
| Articles about Sound and the Cosmos | ||||
| Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics | ||||
| Thursday: | Computer Music workshop | |||
| Friday: | (guest speaker?) | |||
| Week 10: | Dec 8 | Presentation week/exams/wrap up | ||
| Evals: | Dec 15 | |||
| Reading for winter break : Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann | ||||
Faculty Contact and more Info:
| Dr. Arun Chandra | 360-867-6077 | arunc(at)evergreen.edu | COM 308 A |
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| Dr. E.J. Zita | (email is best) |
zita(at)evergreen.edu |
2272 Lab II |
Information from Registration, including course CRN 10034 (Fr). 10036 |
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