To familiarise the student with current development in modelling hearing and music processing.

Syllabus

Review of music notation systems. Models of Hearing - cochlear models(such as Lyon's model). Cognitive models of music, Models of the musical listener, composer and performer. Cognitive theories of music listening. Psychomusicological models, such as those proposed by Narmour and Lerdahl and Jackendoff. The use of models in computer aided composition. Implementing cognitive models. Introduction to computational models of music cognition.