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Aspects of Rhythm and Meter Music 254. Regularity vs Irregularity  Meter  Ordinary meters as notated  Ordinary meters as sounded/heard  Unmeasured.

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1 Aspects of Rhythm and Meter Music 254

2 Regularity vs Irregularity  Meter  Ordinary meters as notated  Ordinary meters as sounded/heard  Unmeasured music  Polymeter; hypermeter  Accent  Prosody approach  Tonal and inflectional  Hierarchical aspects of rhythm  Melodic contributions  Harmonic contributions 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field2

3 Meter 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field3

4 Meter and metrical ambiguity Compound meter Dual-role notes (chained melodies) 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field4

5 Accent Prosody models Combination measures 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field5

6 Metrical evaluation Metrical skimming Variable meter 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field6

7 Performance of time Tempo-loudness visualizations (Widmer et al.) 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field7

8 Widmer (2006-09): Performance worms 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field8 Performance alphabet Beat-level changes: Famous performers

9 Widmer et al. (ISMIR 2015) 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field9 Focus: Classical music on the web Objective: compare visual user interfaces Observations: popular music – linear listening classical music – content- oriented Multi-modal navigation: Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony (No. 3) Structural navigation

10 Accent 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field10

11 Metrical challenges Mensural notation Unmeasured music Beat contradictions 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field11

12 Pitch accents (Jones, Pfordresher, 2003) “Melodic” vs. “rhythmic” accent  First, last pitches in phrase  Highest, lowest pitches in phrase  Various combinations of these in judgments of melodic similarity 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field12 Cf. Essen software for folk-song research

13 Hierarchical Aspects of Rhythm 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field13

14 Harmonic Rhythm: Joseph Swain 1. Activity levels 2. Rhythm of Harmonic Change 3. Root rhythm 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field14

15 Harmonic rhythm (Swain), cont. 5a. Density + Function 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field15

16 Harmonic rhythm (Swain), cont. 4. Density 6. Final tiered view 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field16

17 Less metrically oriented approaches Winograd (1968) Temperley (Melisma, c. 1999) 2016 Eleanor Selfridge-Field17

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