Definitions
What is a musical cycle? A strict cycle is a series, associated with a succession of events, that is heard to be immediately and persistently repeated. It gives every event the purpose of completing the series and filling out its duration. The repetitions also associate events that appear in the same position in their respective cycles. […]
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 […]