Le 28 juin 2017
de 14h00 à 14h30
Le Patio (université de Strasbourg)
22 rue René Descartes, 67000 Strasbourg
salle 3203
Séance - Issues of Rhythm and Metre
Pré-acte / Acte
Auteur : Danuta Mirka
The technique of phrase linkage in which the end of one phrase coincides with the beginning of another has been described by music theorists since the eighteenth century and further explored in the twentieth. The exploration was initiated by Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983), who distinguished between two forms of this phenomenon—overlap and elision—but their distinction was questioned by Benjamin (1984) and dismissed as merely “logical” by Rothstein (1989: 46). In my paper I will argue that it is more than just logical. Rather, it accounts for different perceptions of phrase linkages in real time and bears upon the perceptual effect of hypermetrical irregularities caused by them. I will use my dynamic model of meter (Mirka 2009) and extend it upon hypermeter in order to study such effects in the repertoire of Haydn’s and Mozart’s chamber music for strings.
