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 […]
Approaches to Analysis
What are our approaches to analyzing such a diverse repertoire? This project aims to coordinate the approaches of two musical scholarly disciplines that have often been seen as complementary or even contradictory. Ethnomusicology researches the range of human musical experience in all its diversity, while music theory, as it widens its scope to consider that […]
Media
View recorded conference presentations and other available media relevant to our studies. ‘Some Traditional-Music Examples of Cycle Variation and its Grouping Effects’ – Presentation delivered by John Roeder at AAWM 2022 (abstract here). ‘Variable-rhythm Quale Cycles in World Music and their Special Properties’ – Presentation delivered by John Roeder at AAWM 2021 (abstract here) ‘Sound Materiality and […]
Bibliography
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 […]
Research Products
On the published research page, you will find publications primarily written by our principal investigators. The conference presentations section lists those presentations funded by our project and by our research team members. The page of unpublished materials is a home for fairly substantial work done by our members that has not yet found a place […]
Published Research
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 […]
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 […]
About
Our project seeks to sketch a portrait of cyclic music in cultures worldwide, considering how the range of its varieties could be represented. Cooordinating the perspectives of music theory and ethnomusicology, principal investigators John Roeder and Michael Tenzer, along with their research associates, create and evaluate tools and methodologies for describing, analyzing, and comparing musical cycles […]
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 […]