Archivists meet Artists: InterPARES Insights into Authenticity
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Art, Conservation, and Authenticities: Material, Concept, Context, ed. Erma Hermens and Tina Fiske, 227-234. London: Archetype Publications Weblink: http://www.interpares.org
A Transformational Space Structuring the Counterpoint in Adès’s “Auf dem Wasser zu singen”
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 15/1 Weblink: http://www.mtosmt.org Abstract: The third movement of Thomas Adès’s string quartet Arcadiana features a complex, free textural counterpoint that seems resistant to the transformational analysis of the common sort that focuses, as does motivic analysis, on a small family of structured objects. However, by choosing a suitable space of […]
Local polymetric structures in Elliott Carter’s 90+ for piano (1994)
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Modernist legacy: Essays on new music, edited by Björn Heile, Aldershot, 205-223. England: Ashgate, 2009. Weblink: https://taylorfrancis.com Abstract: At the heart of early musical modernism was a desire to face the challenges of a rapidly changing way of life brought about by scientific discoveries, technological advances and industrialization with radically new forms […]
Constructing Transformational Signification: Gesture and Agency in Bartók’s Scherzo, Op. 14, No. 2, mm. 1-32
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Theory Online 15/1 Weblink: www.mtosmt.org Abstract: David Lewin’s didactic examples of transformational analysis leave open questions about how to choose the most expressive object families, network types, and visual representations, as well as deeper questions about the nature of “gesture” and the agent “inside the music.” By developing several contrasting analyses of […]
Part Three—Authenticity, Reliability and Accuracy of Digital Records in the Artistic, Scientific and Governmental Sectors: Domain 2 Task Force Report
Author: Roeder, John, Eppard, Philip, Underwood, William, and Lauriault, Tracey Publication details: International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES 2): Experiential, Interactive and Dynamic Records, Luciana Duranti and Randy Preston, eds., 139-186. Padova, Italy: Associazione Nazionale Archivistica Italiana. Weblink: http://www.interpares.org
A transformational space for Elliott Carter’s recent complement-union music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Vol. 37, pp. 300-307 Weblink: http://download.springer.com Abstract: Elliott Carter’s recent music exploits a special combinatorial property of the all-trichord hexachord. I show how this property can be reconceived in terms of interesting and analytically significant musical transformations: three involutions on the pitch-class aggregate which constitute a […]
Elliott Carter: A centennial portrait in letters and documents
Author: Poudrier, Ève Publication details: Journal of the Society for American Music (2010) Volume 4, Number 1. Pp. 104–110 Weblink: https://www.cambridge.org
Vincent d’Indy’s theory of rhythm in the Cours de composition musicale (1902-1950): Sources, Reception, and Legacy
Author: Poudrier, Ève Presentation details: Joint Conference of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and Society for Music Theory (SMT), Nashville (TN), 7 November 2008
Review of Franck Jedrzejewski’s Mathematical Theory of Music
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Journal of Mathematics and Music 1/3: 191-198 Weblink: http://www.tandfonline.com
Co-operating Continuities in the Music of Thomas Adès
Author: Roeder, John Publication details: Music Analysis 25/1-2: 125-154 Weblink: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract: Jonathan Kramer defined postmodern music as an ironic, fragmentary mix of past and present compositional procedures embodying multiple temporal dimensions. Recent theorising grounded in phenomenological and cognitive-scientific accounts of musical experience suggests that it may be possible to develop a more insightful interpretative perspective by extending Kramer’s […]