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Levels of structure in the organization of musical time
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In this article, it is argued that contemporary composers must take account of these consequences if their music is to be comprehensible, and that they must take into account these consequences.Abstract:
Music is organized hierarchically in a network of interconnected levels. Different levels demonstrate structural properties of different types, and are notated in music with differing degrees of explicitness. The lowest level consists of continuously variable expressive properties, while the middle and top levels encompass discrete canonical properties. Contemporary music has cast this division into doubt by weakening or abandoning metrical structures and the discrete categories of duration that go with it, and by calling into question the distinction between structure and expression. Since research indicates that meter plays a vital role as a cognitive framework within which to organize rhythm perception and performance, far‐reaching consequences flow from contemporary compositional developments for the perception of both structural and expressive aspects of rhythm in contemporary music. It is argued that contemporary composers must take account of these consequences if their music is to be comprehensibl...read more
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The concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology
TL;DR: This publication opens with an exposition of entrainment research in various disciplines, from physics to linguistics and psychology, while systematically introducing basic concepts that are directly relevant to musicalEntrainment.
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Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood
Erin E. Hannon,Sandra E. Trehub +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the effect of simple meter structures on the organization of rhythmic patterns in music by exposing listeners to folk melodies differing in metrical structure (simple or complex duration ratios), then testing them on alterations that preserved or violated the original metrical structures.
Metrical Categories in Infancy and Adulthood
Erin E. Hannon,Sandra E. Trehub +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that the metrical biases of North American adults reflect enculturation processes rather than processing predispositions for simple meters, and that 6-month-old infants responded differentially to structure-violating and structure-preserving alterations in both metrical contexts.
In time with the music: the concept of entrainment and its significance for ethnomusicology
TL;DR: The concept of entrainment, broadly defined as a phenomenon in which two or more independent rhythmic processes synchronize with each other, has been studied in various disciplines, from physics to linguistics and psychology.
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Rhythm and Timing in Music
TL;DR: Research in rhythm and timing, is a shift from a rather abstract symbolic approach to perception and production toward an outlook that takes more account of properties of the auditory and motor systems, and of the body in general, or makes use of sub-symbolic principles, which require fewer explicit rules to be built into the models.
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A Generative Theory of Tonal Music
Fred Lerdahl,Ray Jackendoff +1 more
TL;DR: Aboitiz et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationships between language, music, and the brain by pursuing four key themes and the crosstalk among them: song and dance as a bridge between music and language; multiple levels of structure from brain to behavior to culture; the semantics of internal and external worlds and the role of emotion; and the evolution and development of language.