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TT2010

Music Signal and Audio Perception

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Credits 7.5
Level Foundation courses, level I
Course start Autumn 2024
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction English and norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement School exam

About

About the course

Course content

This course gives a basic introduction to sound description and signal analysis, hearing mechanism (audiology), sound perception and music psychology.

Learning outcome

This course forms the basic understanding of music as a signal and as a sound stimulus, understanding of the hearing mechanism and hearing function in addition to music perception and memory. Knowledge: The purpose is to make the student capable of - Understand the construction of music as an acoustical signal - Understand, analyze and describe music signal in the time and frequency domain - Understand the physiology and function of the hearing mechanism - Understand brain physiology concerning sound processing, experience and memory. Skills: This will give the student reasonable background to - Analyze and describe music as an acoustical/electrical signal - Describe links between sound stimulus and sound experience - Produce music formed to fill certain demands and constraints. General competence: The goal is to achieve - Understanding of music as an audio signal - Understanding of simple measuring methods and signal processing - Understanding of hearing as the primary sense for music experience.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures and obligatory exercises.

Compulsory assignments

  • Exercises

Further on evaluation

A certain number of obligatory exercices needs to be delivered. The number and deadlines will be given at the start of the semester.

If there is a re-sit examination in August, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.

Course materials

Given at the beginning of the semester.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
TTX/H03 7.5 sp
TTT4197 3.7 sp Autumn 2015
This course has academic overlap with the courses in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Electronics and Telecommunications
  • Information Technology and Informatics
  • Music Technology
  • Psychology

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturer(s)

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Electronic Systems