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In this course we will be taking a hands on approach to understanding the lever harp both historically and compositionally. We will be building and stringing small 19 string harps which will be used as the basis for our compositional work where students will be creating new works of varying length for the lever harp to be presented at the end of the semester. We’ll look at
In the first half of the term students will compose pieces for the celebrated "Eighth Blackbird" ensemble, which consists of flute(s), clarinet(s), piano, percussion, violin, and cello. In preparation for this, we will study a few important scores written for this combination of instruments. The ensemble will visit in November and read and record the
In 1936, Alan Turing wrote a paper that invented computer science. Not a piece of computer science, not a contribution to it. The whole thing. “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” asked a question that nobody had thought to formalize: what does it mean to compute something? And in answering it, Turing proved
