Acknowledgements and Bibliography for Oscar Smith’s SEM 2022 Presentation
link to PDF poster Acknowledgements Thank you to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people for their patience and ongoing hospitality as UBC operates on their ancestral, unceded territory. Thanks to the UBC School of Music’s Cycles in the World of Music Research Cluster for providing funding for both this research and for travel to New Orleans for this conference. Thanks to John Roeder […]
Kulintangan, Gong-row ensemble music from Sabah, Malaysia
Oscar Smith’s annotated transcription of a cyclic piece of kulintangan music from Sabah province, Malaysia.
Masesa, Women and Girls in Southern Mozambique
Oscar Smith’s paradigm transcription of an ostinato cycle sung by women and girls in Southern Mozambique.
Konnakol Duet in 75/16: Using Non-Isochronous Cycles as a Framework for Durational Transformations
Oscar Smith’s analysis of the various time-shaping strategies occurring in a collaborative online konnakol video by South-Indian musicians B.C. Manjunath and Varijashree Venugopal.
Masesa, Women and Girls in Southern Mozambique
Transcribed from ‘Masesa’, Track 12 of Hugh Tracey’s album Southern Mozambique, Portugese East Africa 1943 ’49 ’54 ’55 ’57 ’63 (HT013/SWP021). Cycle paradigm transcribed by Oscar Smith.
Konnakol Duet in 75/16: Using Non-Isochronous Cycles as a Framework for Durational Transformations
PDF View by Oscar Smith Here I will analyse the various time-shaping strategies occurring in a collaborative online konnakol¹ video (link below) by South-Indian musicians B.C. Manjunath and Varijashree Venugopal. Using a 75-pulse tāla as a framework, the musicians perform various durational augmentations and diminutions that will be closely analysed. I will also reveal some […]
Visual Representations of Cycles
On this page, we explore how visually representing musical cycles in various ways can enrich our understanding of them. How can we visually represent cycles? What do we learn by representing cycles in a visual format? What limitations does each visualisation have for our understanding of cyclic phenomena? Aural phenomena such as music are necessarily […]
Research Team
Principal Investigators Dr. John Roeder (Professor of Music Theory) As a music theorist and analyst, I describe ways that people conceive of music, and how music is heard to organize time coherently, expressively, and meaningfully. I concentrate on music of special relevance today: recent works by contemporary composers in the Western art-music tradition, and the […]
Conference Presentations
(click titles for abstracts, and see the media page for some presentation recordings) Bernacki, Nathan. 2022. “A Beat Level Analysis of Dance Music from the Pirin-Macedonia region of Bulgaria.” Presented at the Seventh International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music, Sheffield, UK [and online], June 14, 2022. Peiris, Eshantha. 2021. “Text-Music Relationships in Un-texted Music of […]