This course explores the role of musical prosody in conveying diverse interpretations in musical performance. Performers manipulate musical parameters such as tempo, loudness, and articulation so as to focus attention and facilitate parsing of musical features, and to create emotional affect. The class covers computational techniques for measuring prosodic cues such as timing and loudness (and time permitting, timbre) in music, the resulting accents and phrases, and how they map to perceived prominence and grouping. The class emphasizes learning by example, and learning by doing. The class includes reading of contemporary scientific literature on the topic, writing, presentation, discussion, and a final project.