Logic Programming Models of Music: A Semiotic Evaluation
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Perspectives of New Music Vol. 57, No. 1-2, Perspectives on and around John Rahn (Winter/Summer 2019), pp. 375-402 Weblink: https://www.jstor.org/ Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7757/persnewmusi.57.1-2.0375?refreqid=excelsior%3A737216277498eff13493ebc85e955f5e&seq=1
Timely Negotiations: Formative Interactions in Cyclic Duets
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Approaches to World Music 7, no. 1 (2019) Weblink: https://aawmjournal.com Abstract: Susanne Fürniss’s (2006) magisterial survey of Aka polyphony analyzes a remarkable duet in which each singer draws material from a regularly repeating cycle but varies it on the fly to complement her partner’s likewise varying repetitions. This texture […]
Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: “Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences.” Empirical Musicology Review 12, no. 3-4 (2018): 277-315. Weblink: http://emusicology.org/ Abstract: The tapping paradigm has played an important role in formulating beat induction models. However, experimental studies that make use of actual music as source materials to investigate pulse finding mechanisms […]
Modeling rhythmic complexity in a corpus of polyrhythm examples from Europe and America, 1900-1950
Author: Poudrier, Ève & Shanahan, D. Presentation details: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 10th Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music Conference (Parncutt, R. & Sattmann, S., Eds.), Montreal (QC), Canada, 23-28 July 2018, pp. 355-360 Weblink: https://static.uni-graz.at Abstract: Rhythmic complexity, as represented by […]
Lines in Harmony: Types of Cooperation in Four Recent Chinese Compositions
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at 2018 Perspectives on Chinese Contemporary Music Conference at Harvard Center Shanghai, Shanghai, 29 May, 2018. Weblink: https://shanghaicenter.harvard.edu
Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the Eastman Theory Colloquium at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, 30 March 2018. Weblink: https://www.esm.rochester.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, […]
Comparing Musical Cycles Across the World
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Presented at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference in Tucson, Arizona, 24 March 2018. Weblink: https://music.arizona.edu Abstract: Growing interest in world-music analysis has highlighted the challenges, long recognized by ethnomusicologists, of comparing music from different cultures on the basis of their divergent indigenous conceptions. Yet, in today’s free-for-all sonic […]
The African Imagination in Music. By Kofi Agawu
Author: Roeder, John Article: Music Theory Spectrum 40, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 154–159. Weblink: https://academic.oup.com Abstract: The author aims not only to scrutinize the continent’s rich musical practices, but also to confound entrenched prejudices and to promote a deeper appreciation of its musicians’ creativity and expression. While he takes measure of African imagination partly in […]
Post-Tonal Solmization for Post-Tonal Aural Skills: Implementing Ordered Pitch-Class Intervals
Author: Robert Komaniecki with David Geary Publication details:Music Theory Pedagogy Online, Volume 31 Weblink: jmtp.appstate.edu Abstract: Scholarship regarding solmization systems is largely limited to tonal methods. The present article extends the discussion to post-tonal aural skills, citing the need for a separate, interval-based methodology that fulfills the same functional role for atonal repertoire as scale-degree […]
Analyzing Collaborative Flow in Rap Music
Author: Robert Komaniecki Publication details: Society for Music Theory, Volume 23, Number 4, December 2017 Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract: This article is a study of the ways in which collaboration is signaled in the delivery of rap lyrics. I begin by describing the importance and prevalence of unified flow in music released by rap groups during […]