One of the most important music critics of the early twentieth century, Paul Eugen Max Bekker was born in Berlin on September 11, 1882, to a tailor and a seamstress. After a career as a violinist and a short stint as a ...

As may be seen at concerts and in various everyday listening situa- tions, people often make spontaneous gestures when listening to music. We believe these gestures are interesting to study because they may reveal important ...

Norwegian telespringar is often referred to as being in so-called asymmetrical triple meter—that is, the three beats in the measure are of uneven duration. Previous studies report that a systematic long–medium–short beat ...

De nombreuses recherches sont actuellement menées par différentes équipes sous le nom générique « d’ethnomusicologie computationnelle ». Sous cette dénomination popularisée notamment par Tzanetakis (Tzanetakis et al. 2007, ...

Today, a live concert no longer necessarily presents a temporal or physical correspondence between the sound and its production, though it continues to promise an experience characterized by immediacy. In this article, we ...

In this paper, we report on a free-hand motion capture study in which 32 participants ‘traced’ 16 melodic vocal phrases with their hands in the air in two experimental conditions. Melodic contours are often thought of as ...

This is a piece originally written by Paul Bekker (1882-1937). It has been translated by Martin Morgenstern and Nanette Nielsen with James Steichen. This piece was originally published in German in Letters to Contemporary ...

Many practices of contemporary DJ-driven electronic dance music derive from 1970s club scenes in the United States, which were welcoming spaces for people who otherwise encountered prejudice for their gender identities and ...

What is recognized as the Norwegian composer Fartein Valen’s international breakthrough took place at the 1947 festival of ISCM (International Society for contemporary Music) in Copenhagen. This article investigates what ...