www.AnalysisWorldMusic.com
Hosted and Sponsored By
© AAWM2012
Graphics by Colin Lewis
Web design by Kalin Kirilov
Asst Website Manager – Shi Yan
ABSTRACTS
* PDF Abstracts will be available in March 2012
Keynote Addresses
Stephen Blum (City University of New York Graduate Center)
Uses (and abuses) of metaphor in music-making and music analysis
Robert Morris (Eastman School of Music)
Paper Presentations
Nicholas Cook (Cambridge University)
Ruth Davis (Cambridge University)
Music Theory as Symbolic Act in Postcolonial Tunisia
Rachel Hall (Saint Joseph's University)
Rachel Harris (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Sounding Islam in China: Towards an analysis of ritual performance in Uyghur villages
Robert Labaree (The New England Conservatory of Music)
Darwin’s ‘Sensible Pluralism’ in the Study of Musical Variability Across Cultures
John Latartara (University of Mississippi)
Khap of the Tai Dam People
Sam Mirelman (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Tuning Procedures in Ancient Iraq
Bruno Nettl (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
The Study Of Formal Design In Native American Music
Jay Rahn (York University)
Hearing is Believing: A Non-Numerical Formulation of Aristoxenus’s Tuning
John Rahn (University of Washington)
Experiencing art as experiencing time
Jonathan P.J. Stock (University of Sheffield)
Melodic and temporal variation in Shi Xiaoying’s accelerating ganban (recitative) from the Shanghai opera
Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai
Godfried Toussaint (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Phylogenetic Analysis of African Rhythm Timelines
Sarah Weiss (Yale University)
Central Javanese Pathet Theory and Grimingan
Richard Widdess (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
Schema Combination and Improvisation in Indian Music
Kalin Kirilov (Towson University)
Asymmetry and Modality in the Music of South Eastern Europe
Daniel Goldberg (Yale University)
Playing with Sums: Reconsidering Additive Rhythm in Balkan Music
Christopher Miller (Cornell University)
The Sound of Stretched Time: Meter and Hypermeter in Central Javanese Gamelan Music
John Napier (University of New South Wales)
Teleology and proportion in North Indian vocal performance
Grant Sawatzky (University of British Columbia)
Pattern, Contour and Cycle in Ndau Mbira Repertoire
Mark DeWitt (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
The Case of "Crooked Tunes" in Cajun and Creole Dance Music: Toward a Comparative Framework
Olmo Cornelis (University College Ghent)
Tarsos, Platform for Exploring Scale Organization
Myfany Turpin (University of Queensland)
Text and music in traditional Arandic songs of Central Australia
Jeffrey Levenberg (Princeton University)
The Commatic, the Khorasanī, and the Fumeuse: Solage’s Speculacion and the European-Arabian
Musical Confluence
Leslie Tilley (University of British Columbia)
Kendang Arja: The Transmission, Diffusion and Evolution(s) of the Singapadu Style
Chelsea Edwardson (University of British Columbia)
Circles, Lines, Spaces and Context: Four Elements of Periodicity in a Panasar Topeng Performance
Steven Knopoff (University of Adelaide, South Australia)
'Component Repertoires' and the Analysis of Yolngu Ceremonial Songs
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (Brown University and Emerson College)
Karamanlica Publications: Cultural Translations Of Ottoman/Turkish Music Into Byzantine Notations
Michael Gardiner (University of PIttsburgh)
Three Chromatopes of Noh
Marie-France Mifune (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France / Université Omar Bongo, Gabon)
Theory and methodology for the study of performance
Rainier Polak (Cologne University of Music and Dance)
Drumming Sunun. Asymmetric subdivision and metric flexibility in a piece of jembe music from Mali
Maeve Sterbenz (Columbia University)
Possibilities for the Analysis of Noise Music from a Listening Perspective
Nolan Stolz (University of South Dakota)
Fractional Set Theory: A System for the Analysis of Microtonal Music
Nancy Murphy (University of British Columbia)
“Do You Want to Play?”: Breaking from the Groove in the Music of Capoeira Angola'
Maho A Ishiguro (Wesleyan University)
In Search of Refinement: Manifestation of Alus in Genderan Pathetan in Performances of Martopangrawit and Projopangrawit
Yuhwen Wang (National Taiwan University)
Linearity/Circularity and Cultural Heterogeneity
Martin Scherzinger (New York University)
Fractal Geometries of an African Music
Christopher Matthay (Princeton University and New York University)
Ravi Shankar: An Aesthetic of Variation
Jaime Bofill (University of Arizona)
Improvisation in Jíbaro Music: A Structural Analysis
Dániel Péter Biró, Peter Van Kranenburg, Steven Ness, George Tzanetakis and Anja Volk (Univ. of Victoria)
On Computational Transcription and Analysis of Candences in Oral and Semi-Oral Chant Traditions
Sally Treloyn (University of Melbourne)
Minimal contrast, juxtaposition and the power of parataxis in junba songs from the Kimberley region
of northwest Australia
Paulo Soares and José Oliveira Martins (Eastman School of Music)
Performance and Stylistic Issues in the Music of Portuguese Guitarist Carlos Paredes
Poster Presentations
Jane Piper Clendinning (Florida State University)
An Analysis of Tari Manuk Rawa (“Swamp Birds Dance”) for Balinese Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Alex Rodriguez (UCLA)
Rhythmic Complexity In Jack Teagarden’s Early Improvisation
Éric Vandal (Université de Montréal)
Individuality in the performance of kotekan in North Balinese gamelan music
Arvin Sedaghatkish and Marjan Kheirollahi (Tehran Polytechnic University)
Computational Analysis of Melodic Patterning in the Persian Classical Music: The Case Study of
Dastgah-e Shour and Mahour of Mirza Abdullah’s Radif
Patrick E. Savage (Tokyo University of the Arts), Thomas E. Currie (University College London), and
Steven Brown (McMaster University)
Musical evolution and human migration: A global empirical analysis
Mark Hijleh (Houghton College)
Fifty-three EDO: Acceptable Pitch Superset for Practical Global Analysis?
Eliot Grasso (University of Oregon)
Playing with the Psychology of Expectation: Appraising Melodic Variation in Irish Traditional Instrumental
Dance Music
Eliana Asano (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
The interaction of text and music and its implication on the performance of the song O Pato (1993) by
Ernst Mahle
Discussion Panel on Comparative Analysis
Steven Brown (McMaster University)
Toward a New Comparative Musicology
Nathalie Fernando and Jean-Jacques Nattiez (University of Montreal)
Victor Grauer (Pittsburgh, PA)
Respondent: Gage Averill (University of British Columbia)
Special Session on Jazz Analysis in Memory of Dr. Steve Larson
Cynthia Folio (Temple University)
Dexter Gordon’s Ultimate “Body and Soul”
Keith Waters (University of Colorado)
Form and the Miles Davis Quintet of the mid-60s
