rhythm in the context of other musical parameters

MODELLING THE SPEED OF MUSIC USING FEATURES FROM HARMONIC/PERCUSSIVE SEPARATED AUDIO - Anders Elowsson Anders Friberg Guy Madison Johan Paulin

note density and spectral flux

Metre is epiphenomenon of rhythm and pith relations

Harmonic rhythm

According to Joseph Swain (2002 p.4) harmonic rhythm "is simply that perception of rhythm that depends on changes in aspects of harmony." According to Walter Piston (1944), "the rhythmic life contributed to music by means of the underlying changes of harmony. The pattern of the harmonic rhythm of a given piece of music, derived by noting the root changes as they occur, reveals important and distinctive features affecting the style and texture."[3]

Meter as Rhythm by Christopher Hasty

We perceive music as a series of events

anticipation - not a static thing - it changes as we listen

Lerdahl and Jackendoff's

- grouping structure

- heirachichal structure

Where in the music is the rhythm?

Rhythm is an epiphenomenon

Is everything rhythm?

form <-> rhythm <-> pitch

rhythm is not about dividing time, but generating time

subjective time - a new epistemology

entrainment in nature - gibbon pant hooting example, also fireflies

how we internalise what we see and understand our perception

the motor system in brain is active

maybe rhythm is something very fundamental

Steiner schools have rhythm as a big part of the philosophy

Why do we have to have rhythm - can we avoid it? Even in randomness we find order - even arhythmic is music

We can avoid metre though!

We have to leave out time.

even 4'33 had events

Just one event may not be enough

We need three events for two IOIs to make a rpeptition for Inner Metrical Analysis?

rational rhythm - knowedge

rhythms and relation to gesture

we didn't get to the bottom of anything but thought about rhythm by itself

rhythm is an aspect of the temporal domain

rhythm alone does not seem to be anything - in platonic heaven rhythm wouldn't be there

*but*

rhythm is a useful construct

new title proposition for this discussion:

Music in the Context of Everything Else