Potentiel polymétrique et réalisation dans l’œuvre d’Elliott Carter: Ébauche d’une approche analytique multivalente
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Hommage à Elliott Carter, edited by Max Noubel, 147-174. France: Editions Delatour, 2013.
Detecting perturbations in polyrhythms: Effects of complexity and attentional strategies
Author: Fidali, B. C., Poudrier, Ève, Repp, B. H. Publication details: Psychological Research 77, no. 2 (2011): 183-95. Weblink: http://cogsys.sites.olt.ubc.ca Abstract: Jones et al. in Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception and Performance 21:293–307, 1995, showed that a temporal perturbation is easier to detect in a 3:2 polyrhythm than in a single-stream isochronous baseline condition if the two isochronous […]
Multiple temporalities: Speeds, beat cues, and beat tracking in Carter’s instrumental music
Author: Poudrier, Ève Presentation details: Joint Conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Music Theory (SMT), and Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), New Orleans (LA), 3 November 2012 Weblink: http://indiana.edu Abstract: In the music of Elliott Carter, multiple temporalities usually involve the simultaneous presence of contrasting speeds and beat structures made tangible through the use of different […]
‘The matter of human cooperation’ in Carter’s mature style
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Elliott Carter Studies, edited by Marguerite Boland and John Link, 110-137. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Weblink: http://www.cambridge.org Abstract: Over the course of an astonishingly long career, Elliott Carter has engaged with many musical developments of the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries – from his early neo-classic music of the interwar period, to […]
Identity and Genre in Gamelan Gong Kebyar: An Analytical Study of Gabor
Author: Roeder, John and Tenzer, Michael Publication details: Music Theory Spectrum 34, no. 1 (2012): 78-122. Weblink: http://www.jstor.org Abstract: Gabor is a piece for Balinese gamelan gong kebyar that deploys concurrent textural layers moving at different speeds, organized around a slow melody measured by recurring patterns of gong strokes. The melody, drumming, gong patterns, layer figuration, and tempo vary throughout the […]
Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music
Author: Roeder, John and Tenzer, Michael Publication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Weblink: https://global.oup.com Abstract: Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music presents intriguing explanations of extraordinary musical creations from diverse cultures across the world. All the authors are experts, deeply engaged in the traditions they describe. They recount the contexts in which the music is created and […]
Fluctuant Grouping in a Silk-and-Bamboo Melody
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Analytical Approaches to World Music Journal 1, no. 2 (2011). Weblink: http://aawmjournal.com Abstract: Liuban is one of a constellation of old tunes (qupai) that are foundational to music of China, and in particular to the rich “Silk-and-Bamboo” music (jiangnan sizhu) of the lower Yangzi region. This essay highlights some of the extraordinary qualities […]
Transformational Aspects of Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 55, no. 1 (April 01. 2011): 1-41. Weblink: http://jmt.dukejournals.org/content/55/1/1 Abstract: Arvo Pärt’s strict and elemental compositional procedures, which have been described and evaluated critically by several scholars, are here expressed via a mathematical formalism drawn from theories of musical transformations. The analytical opportunities that this perspective provides are […]
Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music.” Arctic Discourses. Edited by Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, and Henning Howlid Wærp. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. Weblink: www.cambridgescholars.com Description: Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the […]
Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.” British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960. Edited by Matthew Riley. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Weblink: www.taylorfrancis.com Abstract: The English imagination takes the form of a ring or circle. It is endless because it has no beginning and no end; it moves backwards as […]