| Dear colleagues, I am trying to build up a collection of musical examples from around the world in
which timbre plays a role at rhythmic, metric and hypermetric levels of
musical structuring. If you have any ideas, recordings or demos (words, scores, recordings, references) in which the following phenomena are clealry apparent, I would be delighted to hear about and receive them. - the effect of timbre-based
stream segregation on rhythm perception - the role of timbral saliency
in the perception of rhythmic accents and possible differences among cultures - timbral accentuation and meter perception - timbral contrasts and the induction of
hypermeter - the relation between timbral heterogeneity and rhythmic
complexity. I am most interested in examples drawn from real music. My plan is to create a website with these examples, which interested colleagues could use for pedagogical and research purposes. All contributions will be appropriately acknowledged. With best wishes, Stephen McAdams Schulich School of Music McGill University 555 Sherbrooke St. W. Montréal, Québec Canada H3A 1E3 |