Music and Sound Studies

Review of Christopher F. Hasty, Meter as Rhythm

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 4.4: 1.1-5.7. Weblink: http://www.mtosmt.org

Geisha, Kouta, and Karaoke

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Kyoto Journal 32:18-23 (1996)

Changdan Revisited: Korean Rhythmic Patterns in Theory and Contemporary Performance Practice

Author: Hesselink, Nathan Publication details: Han’guk ŭmak yŏn’gu [Studies in Korean Music] 24:143-55 (1996) Weblink: www.dbpia.co.kr

A Calculus of Accent

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 39, no. 1 (Spring, 1995): 1-46 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org Abstract: Writings by Wallace Berry and William Benjamin describe musical accent not simply as the momentary emphasis of a time-point in relation to its context, but as the “the intensity peak of a shaped pattern of activity,” and “a point from […]

Voice Leading as Transformation

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Musical Transformation and Musical Intuition: Essays in Honor of David Lewin. Ed. Raphael Atlas and Michael Cherlin. Roxbury, MA: Ovenbird Press. Pp. 41-58. Weblink: https://books.google.ca

Interacting Pulse Streams in Schoenberg’s Atonal Polyphony

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 231-249 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org

Formal Functions of Hypermeter in the Dies iræ of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Theory and Practice, Vol. 19 (1994), pp. 83-104 Weblink: http://www.jstor.org

Kouta and Karaoke in Modern Japan: A Blurring of the Distinction between Umgangsmusik and Darbietungsmusik

Author: Hesselink, Nathan     Publication details: British Journal of Ethnomusicology 3:49-61 (1994) Weblink: www.jstor.org

A MaMuTh Achievement” [Review of Guerino Mazzola’s Geometrie der Töne and Gruppen und Kategorien in der Musik]

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Perspectives of New Music 31/2: 294-312 Weblink: www.jstor.org

Toward a Semiotic Evaluation of Music Analyses

Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 0.5: 1-22. Weblink: www.mtosmt.org Abstract: Eco’s theory of codes provides the basis for analyzing the structure of meaning in three contrasting types of music- analytical representation.An evaluation of the pitch-class- integer code highlights the essential arbitrariness of the links between music and mathematics.Graphical representations of music are also evaluated with reference […]