Polyrhythm Analysis Using the composite Tool
Authors: Poudrier, Ève, Sapp, C.S. Publication details: 9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM2022), July 28, 2022, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 65-73. ACM, New York, NY, USA Weblink: https://doi.org/10.1145/3543882.3543890 Abstract: We introduce a computational tool that allows comparison and classification of polyrhythms in notated music. By reducing different musical textures into unpitched rhythmic strands, […]
Music and Deafness in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Imagination
Author: Anabel Maler Publication details: Journal of the Society for American Music, Volume 16 , Issue 2 , May 2022 , pp. 184 – 205 Weblink: cambridge.org Abstract: This article argues that deaf musical knowledge became epistemically excluded from systems of musical thought in the United States as the result of a battle between two […]
Perception of Musicality and Emotion in Signed Songs
Author: Anabel Maler with Heather Harden Mangelsdorf and Jason Listman. Publication details: Music Perception (2021) 39 (2): 160–180. Weblink: online.ucpress.edu Abstract: This study investigated how signed performances express musical meaning and emotions. Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing (HoH), and hearing participants watched eight translated signed songs and eight signed lyrics with no influence of music. The participants […]
The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy
Edited by: VanHandel, Leigh Publication details:The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy Weblink: https://routledge.com Outstanding Multi-authored Collection Award given for a distinguished multi-author collection for a volume edited by Leigh VanHandel, The Routledge companion to music theory pedagogy. It’s the first pedagogically-oriented scholarship to win a Society for Music Theory Publication award. From publisher: Today’s […]
The cognitive and affective correlates of rhythmic complexity
Authors: Poudrier, Ève, Sapp, C.S., Shanahan, D Publication details: ICMPC ESCOM 2021: Connectivity and diversity in music cognition, 28-31 July 2021 Weblink: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hCtYDdTHfb3Txo2ryT1ZS2JzL8tT5I6U/view and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8lk36AlfPY Abstract: The goal of the present study is to identify the cognitive and affective correlates of rhythmic complexity. Specifically, we hypothesize that there is a relationship between the structural features that […]
Rhythmic Techniques in Deaf Hip Hop
Author: Robert Komaniecki with Anabel Maler Publication details: Society for Music Theory, Volume 27, Number 1, March 2021 Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract:The art of signed music involves the use of rhythmicized signs from a signed language, such as American Sign Language (ASL), in a musical context. Signed music encompasses a variety of subgenres, including ASL hip […]
Vocal Pitch in Rap Flow
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: INTÉGRAL The Journal of Applied Musical Thought, Volume 34 Weblink: esm.rochester.edu Abstract: In this article, I argue that pitch plays an important role in the structure and delivery of rap flows. I demonstrate the ways in which rappers manipulate pitch to create a structural parameter that can operate independently from […]
Interactions of Folk Melody and Transformational (Dis)continuities in Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999)
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online, Vol. 26 No. 3, 2020 Weblink: https://www.mtosmt.org/ Abstract: Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999) for solo piano, like many works of Western-trained Chinese composers, situates fragments of evocative traditional folk melody within a post-tonal discourse that is well described by transformation theory. The eponymous folk tune that it […]
“The Influence of Rate and Accentuation on Subjective Rhythmization”
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2020) 38 (1): 27–45. Weblink: https://online.ucpress.edu/ Abstract: The parsing of undifferentiated tone sequences into groups of qualitatively distinct elements is one of the earliest rhythmic phenomena to have been investigated experimentally (Bolton, 1894). The present study aimed to replicate and extend these findings through online […]
Formative Processes of Durational Projection in “Free Rhythm” World Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm, edited by Richard Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty, 55-74. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Weblink: https://www.oxfordscholarship.com Abstract: Recent theories of meter have been enriched by consideration of the time cycles and nonisochronous beats found in many musical cultures. However, these theories do […]