(MAY 28 &) JUNE 4
[See “Final Presentations” below]
Provocation
Williams, James. “The first synthesis of time,” and “The second synthesis of time”; Chs. 2 and 3 of Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Time: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinborough: Edinborough University Press, 2011), pp. 21-50. These make significant reference to Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968) and in particular its “Conclusion” (see link for the translation by Paul Patton; New York: Columbia, 1994).
Theory/Practice
Kvifte, Tellef. “Categories and Timing: On the Perception of Meter.” In Ethnomusicology, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Winter, 2007), pp. 64-84.
Agawu, V. Kofi. “The Rhythmic Structure of West African Music,” in the Journal of Musicology, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer, 1987), pp. 400-418.
Stone, Ruth. “Commentary: The Value of Local Ideas in Understanding West African Rhythm.” In Ethnomusicology, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter, 1986), pp. 54-57.]
Optional
Carson, Benjamin. “Perceiving and Distinguishing Simple Timespan Ratios without Metric Reinforcement.” In Journal of New Music Research 36/4 (December 2007), 313-36.
[Also, the complete text of “Difference and Repetition” [<—55 MB] is here.]
JUNE 4, JUNE 13 7:30-10:30 PM
Final presentations in weeks 9 & 10 — building *either* on your two short analyses or on a thread of arguments emerging in your reading notes, in the final two weeks each of you should also offer a 15-20 min. presentation. The “two options” mentioned above are, roughly,
— OPTION 1 a discussion of a longer (or perhaps conceptually denser) musical example, informed by critical or analytical tools in the seminar; this needn’t be an analysis in the traditional sense, but it could be; it could also be a critical meditation on the example’s relevance to academic discussions on time and rhythm.
— OPTION 2 a discussion of a compositional approach to time that is informed by the concepts of the course, with at least three manifestations/sketches that demonstrate that approach
Optional Review
Deleuze, Gilles (1975). “To Occupy Without Counting: Boulez, Proust, and Time,” in Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995. Cambridge: MIT Semiotext(e), 2006. pp. 292-299.“Making Audible Forces Audible,” and overview the concepts of “repetition for itself” and “repetition in itself” in Chapter of the Wikipedia article on those principles.