Registration
Registration is mandatory as seating is limited (30 seats): Workshop on empirical, analytical and speculative approaches to tuning - registration
Description
Tuning - the study of exact intervallic relationships between the pitches of a musical system, composition, or performance - lies at the intersection of several music-related disciplines. In a series of short papers, the speakers will demonstrate their various approaches and join in discussion of the issues raised.
Guests / Speakers
- Johanna Devaney, Ohio State University, USA
- Paul Erlich, Independent researcher, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Robert Hasegawa, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
- William Sethares, University of Wisconsin, USA
- Jon Wild, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
Schedule
The following talks will be given:
Johanna Devaney: Empirically evaluating vocal intonation
Paul Erlich: Commas, temperaments, and scales
Bob Hasegawa: Strange attractors: Chaotic form in Tristan Murail’s Attracteurs étranges
William Sethares: Experiments on the relationship between Perde and Seyir in Turkish Maqam music
Jon Wild: Freshman harmony exercises from a parallel universe