After completion of this course, the student:
- has acquired knowledge about various digital methods of recording analysis;
- has insight into past and current projects using digital methods;
- is able to employ digital analysis methods using the Sonic Visualiser software;
- is able to relate these methods to their own fields of interest and develop relevant research questions.
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Only open to students enrolled in the RMA programme Musicology.
In this course theoretical and practical aspects of musical recording analysis are discussed. Within the theoretical framework questions are tackled about when and to what extent recording analysis is useful in musicological research, and what kind of knowledge can be gained by it. A number of cases of digital tool-assisted recording studies are examined, and their uses and contributions to various subfields of musicology (e.g. performance studies, popular music studies, ethnomusicology) are discussed. Special attention is devoted to the various methods of analysis and visualisation that digital tools afford.
The practical aspect of the course is devoted to learning to work with the Sonic Visualiser software—a tool developed by and for musicologists for the purposes of analysing and visualising digital recordings. Students will work through a tutorial during class, and develop their own research question based around SV and a (set of) musical recording(s) of their choice. The results of this research will be presented in class with the help of a poster.
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