Psychology of Rhythm - Class Schedule

Wednesday September 22 Organizational meeting

Week 1: Background

Monday September 26 Justin London (2004) Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 1-3.
Wednesday September 28 Justin London (2004) Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapters 4-7.

Week 2: Classic Experiments

Monday October 3 Eric Clarke (1999). Rhythm and timing in music. In: D. Deutsch (Ed.) The Psychology of Music. 2nd edition. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 473-500.
Dirk-Jan Povel & Peter Essens (1985). Perception of temporal patterns. Music Perception, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 411-440.
Wednesday October 5 Eric Clarke (1987). Categorical rhythm perception: An ecological perspective. In: A. Gabrielsson (Ed.) Action and Perception in Rhythm and Music. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, pp. 19-33.

Week 3: Rhythm, Language, and Prosody

Monday October 10 Ani Patel & Joseph Daniele (2003). An empirical comparison of rhythm in language and music. Cognition, Vol. 87, B35-B45.
David Huron & Joy Ollen (2003). Agogic constrast in French and English themes: Further support for Patel and Daniele. Music Perception,
Wednesday October 12 Jaan Ross & Ilse Lehiste (2001) The Temporal Structure of Estonian Runic Songs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Week 4: Rhythm & Attention

Monday October 17 Mari Jones (1976). Time, our lost dimension: Toward a new theory of perception, attention, and memory. Psychological Review, Vol. 83, No. 5, pp. 323-355.
Wednesday October 19 Mari Jones, Heather Moynihan, Noah MacKenzie & Jennifer Puente (2002). Temporal aspects of stimulus-driven attending in dynamic arrays. Psychological Science, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 313-319.

Week 5: African Rhythm

Monday October 24 Prof. Mari Reis Jones visits our class
Wednesday October 26 Jeff Pressing (1983). Cognitive ismorphisms between pitch and rhythm in World musics: West Africa, the Balkans and Western tonality. Studies in Music, Vol. 17, pp. 38-61.
Kofi Agawu (2003). Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions. New York: Routledge, pp. 71-96.

Week 6: Figural Rhythmic Perception

Monday October 31 David Huron (2006). Expectations in time. In: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 10.
David Huron (2006). Creating predictability. In: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 13.
Wednesday November 2 Bulgarian Aksak rhythms; Stravinsky & "irregular" rhythms

Week 7: Syncopation & Performance

Monday November 7 David Huron & Ann Ommen (under review). An Empirical study of syncopation in American popular music 1890-1939.
David Huron (2006). Creating surprise. In: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 14.
Wednesday November 9 Caroline Palmer (1997). Music performance. Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 48, pp. 115-138.

Week 8: Rubato

Monday November 14 Bruno Repp, "XXX"
Johan Sundberg, Anders Friberg, and Roberto Bresin (2003). Attempts to reproduce a pianist's expressive timing with Director Musices performance rules. Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 32, No. 3, 317-326.
Friberg, A, Colombo, V, Frydén, L and Sundberg, J (2000). Generating musical performances with Director Musices. Computer Music Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 23-29.
Johan Sundberg (2000). Emotive transforms. Phonetica, Vol. 57, pp. 95-112.
Ulf Kronman & Johan Sundberg (1987). Is the ritard an allusion to locomotion? In: A. Gabrielsson (Ed.) Action and Perception in Rhythm and Music. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, pp. 57-68.
Piet Vos & Stephen Handel (1987). Playing triplets: Facts and preferences. In: A. Gabrielsson (Ed.) Action and Perception in Rhythm and Music. Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Music, pp. 35-47.
Neil Todd (1985). A model of expressive timing in tonal music. Music Perception, Vol. 3, pp. 35-58.
Wednesday November 16 Shortened class

Week 9: Analysis

Monday November 21 Ani Patel lecture 4PM Music & Dance Library
Monday November 21 Cooper & Meyer, Lerdahl & Jackendoff, GTTM
Wednesday November 23 Thanksgiving Holiday - no class

Week 10: A Sense of Time

Monday November 28 David Huron (2006). Creating tension. In: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 15.
Wednesday November 30 The Psychological Present; Trance
David Huron (2006). Expecting the unexpected. In: Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 16.