Event overview
Postgraduate Music students speak about their research.
Ju-Lee Hong: ‘Modelling Expression: An Empirical Analysis of Recordings of Brahms's Cello Sonatas’
Ju-Lee Hong presents a comparative analysis of expressive timing found in twelve selected commercial recordings of the two Brahms cello sonatas, identifying the influence of pedagogical relationships and reception history in performance styles. To clarify the boundary between cultural norms and individual expression Hong considers the pros and cons of previous approaches of modelling expression, such as principal component analysis (PCA) and the CHARM timescape correlation analysis. Similar rates among individual performances suggest that reception history could have played a crucial role in influencing the expressive timing of the second movement of the E minor sonata Op.38. This contrasts with the second movement of the F major sonata Op.99, in which a fair dissimilarity of timing style is identified between artists.
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Stephen Graham: ‘How Can we talk about Unpopular Popular Music?’
The vast majority of musicologists and musicians working today will be aware of the increasingly vast field of experimental musical activity currently in play. Much of this 'new' music is non-notated, however, and makes use of technologies, instruments, and modes of presentation more commonly associated with 'popular' music. My paper will briefly consider first of all the nature of this unpopular popular music, paying particular attention to the tensions that pervade the description and the activity itself, and it will then ask, if the description is accurate, how could an analytical model be developed that would respond attentively to this liminal, porous music?
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Oct 2009 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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