Week 9 (12 Mar 2003): Beats and Rhythm

1. Student summaries of the class.
   
   
2. Terminology:
   • Beats (downbeat, off beat, upbeat/pickup), pulse, tactus
   • Meter, grouping, phase
   • Tempo
   
   
   
3. Examples by the class
   
   
   • Shivani: 16 beat rhythm (4+4+4+4). the most prominent beat (loudest) is first beat 16-beat cycle [link]
   
   
   
4. Beats and Rhythm
   
   
   • "A Perceptual Model of Pulse Salience and Metrical Accent in Musical Rhythms."
     by Parncutt, Richard (1994).
     In Music Perception 11, 409-464.

     ( Presentation by Zhenyao Mo -- PPT )

     
     

   • "Measuring the Similarity of Rhythmic Patterns."
     by Paulus, J. & Klapuri, A. (2002).
     In Proceedings of the 3rd ISMIR, p. 150-156.

     ( Presentation by Frances Kao -- PPT )

     
     

   • "Pinpointing the Beat: Tapping to Expressive Performances."
     by S. Dixon and W. Goebl (2002).
     In Proceedings of the 7th ICMPC, p 617-620.

     ( Presentation by Andy Lee -- PPT )

5. Assigned Readings (handed out in class)
   
   
   • Notes on
     Grouping Structure in "A Generative Theory of Tonal Music"
     by Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp.36-67
     
     
   • See "Week 10" for notes on
     "Turning Music theory on its ear."
     by Jeanne Bamberger (1996). International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, Vol.1 No.1.
     
     
   • See "Week 10" for notes on
     "Music as embodied mathematics: a study of a mutually informing affinity."
     by Jeanne Bamberger (2003). To appear in the International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning.

Posted 5 Mar 2003.