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MUSI3029 Music and Scientific Thoughts: past and present (capstone experience)
Course Type: disciplinary elective for music majors/minors, free elective for others
Prerequisite: NIL
Instructor: Dr. Youn KIM
Semester: Second Semester 2022/23
Time: 12:30pm-2:20pm, Monday
Venue: CRT-11.01 Seminar Room
This course investigates the link between music and science in the Western history. Music has been frequently associated with science but the way the two realms are interconnected with each other varies throughout history. In exploring each case of scientific thoughts on music in history, students are expected to gain a contextual understanding of music and science as socio-cultural products and grow insight to the interdisciplinary nature of the study of music.
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Course Learning Outcomes
Assessment Methods
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Text & Resource Materials
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
  • demonstrate their knowledge about various interplays between music and science in history;
  • reflect upon their own musical experience, formulate a question in a scholarly way, and develop it into a research topic;
  • locate and evaluate resources and integrate literature into a logical argument;
  • produce a coherent research paper on a topic of their own choice.
  • demonstrate an appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the study of music.
Topic Proposal 10%
Critical Review 20%
Presentation 25%
Final Paper 35%  
Participation 10%
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  • Music, Number, and the Universe
  • Music and Proportion
  • Music and Harmonics
  • Music and Nature
  • Music, Instruments, and Machines
  • Quantifying Music
  • Music and Space
  • Empirical Musicology
  • Music and Neuroscience
  • Power of Music
  • Music, Technology, Media and Virtuality
  • Music in the Posthuman Era
Selected readings and listening/viewing materials are either available on Moodle or on reserve at the Music Library.