Unpublished Materials

Analyzing musical cycles as concurrent fluxes of expectation

by John Roeder Co-PI of this study group presents his theoretical framework for the analysis of cyclic musics. The paper combines cognitive- and process philosophy-informed perspectives to develop an understanding of what makes musical cyclicity an especially rich construction, suggesting why it may be found across the world. Download as PDF
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Meter in Bulgarian Folk Music

Nathan Bernacki discusses the concept of meter in a Bulgarian context, noting the discrepancies between emic and etic conceptions of meter and the way that academia has influenced its categorisation.
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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.
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