Room 416-419
Histories of Rhythmic Theories, 1600-present
Conveners: Rick Cohn, Roger Grant, and Carmel Raz
Participants:
David E. Cohen (Senior Research Scientist, “Histories of Music, Mind and Body,” MPIEA)
Rick Cohn (Battell Professor of Music Theory, Yale University)
Michael Graf Münster (Künstlerischer Leiter, Kantorei St. Katharinen, Frankfurt)
Roger Mathew Grant (Associate Professor, Wesleyan University)
Martin Küster (Independent scholar, Berlin)
Justin London (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music, Cognitive Science, and the Humanities, Carleton College)
Marc Perlman (Associate Professor, Brown University)
Carmel Raz (Research Group Leader, “Histories of Music, Mind and Body,” MPIEA)
Bill Rothstein (Professor, The City University of New York Graduate Center)
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (Director, Music Department, MPIEA)
SCHEDULE:
Monday, November 19
13:30-14:00: Tour of the Artlab
14:15-15:00: Talk, David Cohen, “Some Points Regarding the History of 'Accent'”
15:00-15:45: Talk, Melanie Wald-Furhmann and Michael Graf Münster, “Rhythmus als Verlaufsgestalt”
15:45-16:15: Coffee Break
16:15-19:00: Seminar, “Simple, Compounded, and Tripled Measures in the 18th Century,” led by Roger Grant
Tuesday, November 20
9:45-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:30 Workshop Rick Cohn’s draft, “Damaged Cargo: Concerning The Unfortunate Voyage of Poetic Meter to the Land of the Modern Music-Theory Textbook”
11:30-12:30 Workshop Bill Rothstein’s draft, “Bonifazio Asioli and the ritmo armonico”
12:30-13:30 Lunch at the institute
13:30-14:15 Talk, Martin Küster, “Undressing Eighteenth-Century Meter”
14:15-15:00 Talk, Justin London, “The Movement Dynamics of Tactus”
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:15 Talk, Marc Perlman, “Do Javanese Metric Cycles Start or End at the Downbeat? Reflections on the Development of Gamelan Notation Systems”