by Prof. Lydia Ayers

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Exploring Music Lab 3

• by Prof. Lydia Ayers

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Objectives

• Practice music notation, using Noteworthy
  Composer, on your rhythm composition, which is
  due in the lab today (see next slide)
• Make a sequence of your composition using samples
  in CoolEdit

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Composition DUE in This Lab

• You should have completed the following
  composition for this lab if not, you will need
  to write one very quickly
• Write an 8-bar rhythm composition in a meter of
  your choice
• Hint its often good to end on the first beat
  of the last measure
• Set nonsense words below your rhythm
• Examples skoo be doo tuk chuk dum tak ka ba da
• Try to make it sound interesting, but dont use
  too many kinds of sounds because it will take too
  long to record them all

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Composition DUE in This Lab

• Write another part to accompany your composition
  using your drum and shaker sounds
• Optional You can add additional parts if you
  want to
• To print music paper from the Web
  https//www.cs.ust.hk/layers/Password_Only/explor
  ingmusic/image/blank_music_paper.gif

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Noteworthy Composer

• Noteworthy Composer is a music notation program
• Practice using it on your rhythm composition
• Your TA will show you how to use it to notate
  rhythms and lyrics
• You should have one staff for each part at
  least two parts
• A nonsense syllable track
• A rhythm track

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• Create a new score using File ? New
• Select Blank Score, and click OK
• Fill in the author/title info as you like!
• Add a second staff
• Staff Menu ? New Staff
• Insert the Time Signature (e.g. 2/4, 9/8)
• Insert Menu ? Time Signature
• Enter the information as appropriate
• Repeat for both staffs
• Should be the same value for both lines
• No need (for Lab 3!) to insert Clef, Key Signature

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• Add notes, rests, bar lines
• Click on the desired staff, location
• For a note/rest, select the duration
• For a note, hit the Enter key

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• Add notes, rests, bar lines
• Click on the desired staff, location
• For a note/rest, select the duration
• For a note, hit the Enter key
• For a rest, hit the Spacebar key

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• Add notes, rests, bar lines
• Click on the desired staff, location
• For a note/rest, select the duration
• For a note, hit the Enter key
• For a rest, hit the Spacebar key
• For a bar line, hit the Tab key

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• Remember to beam notes together correctly!
• Highlight the notes to beam
• Click on the Beam button

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• Remember to beam notes together correctly!
• Highlight the notes to beam
• Click on the Beam button

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• To insert lyrics
• Select the staff that you want the lyrics to be
  attached to
• Click the Lyrics button

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• To insert lyrics (cont)
• In the pop-up window
• For Line Count, select 1 Lyric Line
• Select the Lyric 1 tab
• Enter the lyrics, each syllable separated by a
  space or hyphen (-)
• Click OK

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Noteworthy Composer Basics

• To play, click the Play button
• All notes will be on a piano
• Lyrics are not sung

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Record Samples

• Record any new sounds required for your
  composition using the SoundEditor, as you did
  last week.
• Record the nonsense syllables
• Record any new percussion sounds that you may
  have added

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Prepare the Sounds

• Clean up the sounds using CoolEdit, as you did
  last week.
• Convert your .wav file to 22050 sampling rate.
• All the .wav files must use the same sampling
  rate
• Convert your .wav file to mono.
• This exercise will be easier if all your sample
  files are mono
• Make sure you have only one sound in each file.
• Get rid of any unnecessary noise at the beginning
  and the end of each sound.

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Create a Sequence

• Copy and paste your recorded samples into a new
  file to make a sequence
• Use one channel for each part
• If you have more than two channels, you can use
  more than one track, but you will only be able to
  hear left and right channels on your headphones
• However, for 3 parts, you could put one in the
  left channel, one in the right channel, and the
  third on another track in the middle of the two
  channels
• Listen to your composition and change anything
  that you want to improve
• You may want to repeat it with some variation

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Changing the Pitch

• Listen to your composition
• If you want to have some higher and lower sounds,
  you can use Effects -gt Time/Pitch -gt Stretch
• The following example raises the pitch 7 half
  steps
• -You can also have fun raising and lowering it
  randomly

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Changing the Pitch

• If you want to have some funny sounds, you can
  use the pitch bender (Effects -gt Time/Pitch -gt
  Pitch Bender)
• The following Squirrely example makes the sound
  bounce up and down

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Changing the Pitch

• The Doppler Shifter is also quite funny (Effects
  -gt Time/Pitch -gt Doppler Shifter)
• The following Rotating Point Source example makes
  the sound bounce around