Course List for Masters Students
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M.S. in Music and Technology Courses

This is not a complete list of options. Masters students are encouraged to take courses in Music, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering and any other department that are not specifically Music and Technology courses. For example, there are several excellent graduate courses on Machine Learning offered by various departments at Carnegie Mellon. Any of these courses can be taken, even though they are not listed here. Please see the Undergraduate Catalog for a complete undergraduate course listing. Courses, including graduate courses, are listed here (with links to short course descriptions). Your advisory committee will help you to select courses.
  • Computer Music Systems and Technology
    • 15-322 Introduction to Computer Music
    • 15-323 Computer Music Systems and Information Processing
    • 60-439 Advanced SIS: Hybrid Instrument Building
  • Signal Processing
    • 18-290 Signals and Systems
    • 18-491 Digital Signal Processing
    • 18-551 Digital Communication and Signal Processing System Design
    • 18-792 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
    • 18-798 Image, Video, and Multimedia
  • Music Information Retrieval
    • 11-755 Machine Learning for Signal Processing
    • 15-826 Multimedia Databases and Data Mining
  • Machine Learning
    • 10-601 or 10-701 Machine Learning
    • 10-705 Intermediate Statistics
  • Acoustics/Recording/Instrument Design
    • 18-493 Electro-acoustics
    • 57-947 Sound Recording
    • 57-948 Editing and Mastering
    • 57-949 Multi-track Recording
    • 48-726 Acoustics and Lighting
  • Music Cognition / Perception
    • 85-356/85-756 Music and Mind: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Sound
    • 85-785 Auditory Perception: Sense of Sound
    • 57-377 Psychology of Music
  • Music Theory
    • 57-441 Analysis of 19th Century Music
    • 57-442 Analytical Techniques
    • 57-430 Music of Iran
    • 57-605 Theory and Analysis for Graduate Students
    • 57-760 Schenkerian Analysis
    • 57-934 Advanced Analytic Techniques
    • 57-968 Post-tonal Theory and Analysis
    • 57-954 Shaping Time in Performance
  • Music History
    • 57-606 Music History for Graduate Students 1
    • 57-609 Music History for Graduate Students 2
    • 57-209 The Beatles
    • 79-345 The Roots of Rock and Roll
  • Composition
    • 57-721 Studio composition
    • 57-968 20th and 21st Century Compositional Techniques
    • 57-27x Orchestration
  • Performance
    • 57-459 (Graduate) Score Reading/Keyboard Harmony
    • 57-xxx Technologically-assisted performance independent study
In addition, many of our masters students take undergraduate courses to strengthen their knowledge in areas where they do not already have a strong background. See the B.S. in Music and Technology Curriculum for suggestions.

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