Schedule: The lecture content is subject to change and this list will get out of date because I adapt the course along the way to try to best meet the learning needs of my students. The course Canvas site is the best place to stay on track. All required readings will be posted to Canvas. Check Canvas frequently to make sure you don’t miss any additional readings.

Week	Day			Wehr Chapters	Sacks	Levitin	Additional	HW Due12 pm
1	Day 1	30-Mar	Music and the Brain Introduction.  — No reading					none
	Day 2	1-Apr	Musical Space —  Reading Ch. 1	Ch. 1				Prob set 1
2	Day 3	6-Apr	Perception of Tones —  Reading Ch. 2, Levitin Ch. 1, What is Music?	Ch. 2		Ch. 1		Prob 2
	Day 4	8-Apr	Tones continued (Loudness & Timbre)Consonance and Dissonance 1 — Reading Ch. 3	Ch. 3				Prob 3
3	Day 5	13-Apr	Consonance and Dissonance 2 —  Reading Thompson, “Music of the Hemispheres”				Thompson	Prob 4
	Day 6	15-Apr	Tonality — Reading Ch. 4, and Machlis & Forney, “The Organization of Musical Sounds”	Ch. 4			Machlis & Forney	Prob 5
4	Day 7	20-Apr	The Ear — Reading Ch. 5, Sacks Ch. 10, Pitch Imperfect: Cochlear Amusia [Paper Topic Due]	Ch. 5	Ch. 10			Prob 6 + topic
	Day 8	22-Apr	Neurobiology of the auditory system 1 — Reading Ch. 6	Ch. 6				Prob 7
5	Day 9 Midterm	27-Apr	Midterm exam in class					midterm
	Day 10	29-Apr	Neurobiology of the auditory system 2 No reading					none
6	Day 11	4-May	Rhythm — Reading Ch. 7  Levitin Ch. 2, Foot Tapping	Ch. 7	Ch. 19 (opt)	Ch. 2		Prob 8
	Day 12	6-May	The Missing fundamental in infants — Reading Ch. 8, and He & Trainor, 2009 “Finding the pitch of the missing fundamental in infants”  [optional: Levitin Ch. 3, Behind the curtain]	Ch. 8		Ch. 3 (opt)		Prob 9
7	Day 13	11-May	Grouping mechanisms in music 1 —  — Reading Ch. 9, Deutsch, “Grouping Mechanisms in Music”	Ch. 9			Ch. 9 Deutsch	Prob 10
	Day 14	13-May	Development of music perception – Guest Lecturer – Jenny Mendoza				Hannon	Prob 11
8	Day 15	18-May	Brain damage and brain activity in music — Reading Ch. 10	Ch. 10	Ch. 16			Prob 12
	Day 16	20-May	The topography of tonality — Reading Ch. 11, and Janata, “The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music”  [Term Paper Due]	Ch. 11			Janata	Prob 13 + paper
9	Day 17	25-May	No Class – Memorial Day					none
	Day 18	27-May	Musical Imagery — Reading Halpern, “Cerebral substrates of Musical Imagery”		Ch. 4		Halpern	Prob 14
10	Day 19	1-Jun	Songbirds — Reading Brenowitz, “An Introduction to Birdsong and the Avian Song System”				Brenowitz	Prob 15
	Day 20	3-Jun	Musical Hallucinations — Reading Zimmer, “Neuron network goes awry, and brain becomes an iPod”		Ch. 6		Zimmer	Prob 16
	Final Exam Open	4-Jun	Final exam becomes available.
	Final Exam Due	8-Jun	Final exam due by 5 pm on the Monday following Day 20 (Due Monday June 8th, 5 pm)					final due 5:00 PM

 

Problem sets are always due at 12 pm on the day of lecture.