Event Start:
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 4:00pm
Location:
The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall
Tuesday, December 1 at 4pm in 701C, Center for Ethnomusicology
Fabien Levy
The Pareto Software: A Journey through the Music of the Bedzan Pygmies... and through the World of Ethnomusicology
Abstract:
Pareto ["Patchs d'Analyse et de Resynthèse des Echelles dans les musiques de Tradition Orale" / patches of pitch-scale analysis and re-synthesis in the music of oral tradition] is a set of patches made for the software Open Music by IRCAM which offers three functions:
1) To transcribe an acoustic signal into musical information
2) To propose various statistical tools to help to determine the musical scale
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The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is proud to announce this year's colloquium series!Monday, November 10 at 4pm in 701C, Center for Ethnomusicology
Sonia Seeman
Metaphoricity, Iconicity and Mimesis: Towards a Musical Semantics of Social Identity in Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) Music
Abstract:
One primary concern of musicology and ethnomusicology has been refining
theoretical tools for analyzing the role of musical practices in
constructing, maintaining and challenging social identity. This paper
investigates the process by which social meanings are ascribed to sound
through the example of a Turkish genre, Roman (“Gypsy”) dance tune (Roman
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