7 articles in this issue
Justin London
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Filippo Bonini-Baraldi,Emmanuel Bigand,Thierry Pozzo
Techniques based on motion capture can be useful in analyzing a wide range of musical styles and practices: in this case, Transylvanian village music. We focused on a repertoire known as “Gypsy songs of sorrow”, played by professional Gypsy musicians duri... see more
Martin Clayton
In this response to Filippo Bonini Baraldi, Emmanuel Bigand and Thierry Pozzo’s article ‘Measuring aksak rhythm and synchronization in Transylvanian village music by using motion capture’, I present supplementary analyses of (a) the ratio between Short an... see more
Jerome Cler
While the methodologies employed by Bonini-Baraldi et al., document the rhythms produced in a single set of performances, those methodologies would be more relevant if applied to a comparative study of various aksak rhythms, rather than to a study of a si... see more
Daniel Goldberg
Many songs and dance pieces from the Balkan Peninsula employ aksak meter, in which two categorically different durations, long and short, coexist in the sequence of beats that performers emphasize and listeners move to. This paper analyzes the durations o... see more
Rainer Polak
In a chronometric timing study of percussive accompaniment in two recorded live performances from south-eastern Europe, Daniel Goldberg (2015) focuses on timing variations that relate to several levels of grouping structure and musical form. This commenta... see more
Fernando Benadon
Goldberg (this issue) presents evidence of interactions between percussive timing and song structure in two 3+2+2-meter Balkan performances. Using interonset measurements and checking carefully for statistical significance, he shows that formal and contex... see more