eshantha peiris

The concept of “emic” and “etic” cultural data, deriving from the terms “phonemic” and “phonetic” and referring respectively to culturally salient knowledge and empirical information, has a long history in the humanities. The idea of a strict emic/etic binary is difficult to uphold, given that the views of cultural insiders can change over time, and […]

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 […]

(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 […]

Cycles Fürniss, Susanne. 2006. “Aka Polyphony: Music, Theory, Back and Forth.” In Analytical Studies in World Music, edited by Michael Tenzer, 163-204. New York: Oxford University Press. McGraw, Andrew C. 2013. “Preliminary Remarks on a Helical Representation of Time.” Analytical Approaches to World Music 2 (2). http://www.aawmjournal.com/articles/2013b/McGraw_AAWM_Vol_2_2.html Roeder, John, Tenzer, Michael. 2012. “Identity and Genre […]

Books (click for external purchase links or view through your institution) Roeder, J., Tenzer, M., ed. 2011. Analytical and Cross-Cultural Studies in World Music. New York: Oxford University Press. Tenzer, Michael, ed. 2006. Analytical Studies in World Music. New York: Oxford University Press. Roeder, J., Tenzer, M. 2020. Identitas dan Genre dalam Gamelan Gong Kebyar: Studi […]