RITMO: Musical Rhythm, Time, and Motion

Main curriculum

(* Readings accessible through Fronter )

Burger, B., & Toiviainen, P. (2013). MoCap Toolbox – A Matlab toolbox for computational analysis of movement data. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 10th Sound and Music Computing Conference, (SMC), Stockholm, Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

*Danielsen, A. (2010). Musical rhythm in the age of digital reproduction. Farnham: Ashgate. (chapter 1)

*Honing, H. (2013). Structure and interpretation of rhythm in music. In D. Deutsch (Ed.), Psychology of Music (pp. 369–404). San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press.

Haugen, M. R. (2016). Music–Dance. Investigating Rhythm Structures in Brazilian Samba and Norwegian Telespringar Performance. (Ph.D. thesis Ph.D. ), University of Oslo, Oslo.  (chapter 2, 3, and 4)

*London, J. (2012). Hearing in time: psychological aspects of musical meter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Introduction, Chapter 1, 5, 8, and Conclusion) 

Nymoen, K., Danielsen, A., & London, J. (2017). Validating Attack Phase Descriptors Obtained by the Timbre Toolbox and MIRtoolbox. In Proceedings of the SMC Conferences (pp. 214–219). Aalto University.

Sethares, W. A. (2007). Rhythm and transforms. London: Springer. (chapter 1 and chapter 4)

 

Optional reading

Danielsen, A. (2010). Musical rhythm in the age of digital reproduction. Farnham: Ashgate.

*Danielsen, A. (2015). Metrical ambiguity or microrhythmic flexibility? Analysing groove in “Nasty Girl” by Destiny’s Child. Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music, 53-72. 

Danielsen, A., Haugen, M. R., & Jensenius, A. R. (2015). Moving to the Beat: Studying Entrainment to Micro-Rhythmic Changes in Pulse by Motion Capture. Timing and Time Perception, 3(1-2), 133–154. doi:10.1163/22134468-00002043

*Fraisse, P. (1982). Rhythm and tempo. In D. Deutsch (Ed.), The psychology of music (Vol. 1, pp. 149 -- 180). New York, NY: Academic Press.

Friberg, A. and A. Sundstr?m (1997). Preferred Swing Ratio in Jazz as a Function of Tempo. Time, Music, and Hearing: Quarterly Progress and Status Report 33: 19-27.

Kvifte, T. (2004). Description of grooves and syntax/process dialectics. Studia musicologica norvegica, 30, 54–77.

Kvifte, T. (2007). Categories and Timing: On the perception of Meter. Ethnomusicology, Vol. 51(No. 1), 64 – 84.

Phillips-Silver, J., and Trainor, L. J. (2005). Feeling the beat: Movement influences infant rhythm perception. Science, 308(5727), 1430 – 1430.

Polak, R. (2010). Rhythmic Feel as Meter: Non-Isochronous Beat Subdivision on Jembe Music from Mali. Music Theory Online, 16(4).

Sethares, W. A. (2007). Rhythm and transforms. London: Springer.

Su, Y.-H., & P?ppel, E. (2012). Body movements enhances the extraction of temporal structures in auditory sequences. Psychological Research, 76(3), 373 -- 382.

Waadeland, C. H. (2001). “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing”–Simulating Expressive Timing by Modulated Movements. Journal of New Music Research, 30(1), 23 – 37.

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