Topics in Music Theory: Music in Film, TV, and Video Games

3 Credits.

Informed by theories of memory, semiotics, media technology, and narrative, this course will prepare students to critically investigate the sound and music in the movies we watch, the shows we stream, and the games we play. From neo-Riemannian Triadic Transformation Theory to Spectrographic analysis, students will acquire a range of linear and non-linear analytical techniques through hands-on analysis of cues, theme songs, interstitials, modular loops, stingers, and more.