Project description
Rethinking the roots of musical time
A musical beat is important. Its structure has an intricate history. Syncopation (when a stressed beat deviates from its expected location) is still poorly understood, particularly in its earliest forms. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the FeelTheBeat project is exploring the origins of syncopation between the years 1300 and 1600, when its meaning and application underwent a significant change. The project attempts to reconstruct the understanding and disruption of musical time through an analysis of historical music theory and compositions from this era. This new examination of early syncopation will help us better understand rhythm and metre, the building blocks of musical expression, as well as its significance in the evolution of Western music.
Objective
The organization of time is fundamental to how we perceive and understand music. Different aspects of musical time have been extensively studied (such as how meter and rhythm relate, the connection between musical time and memory, the continuity of musical time, etc.), but so far limited scholarly attention has been given to syncopation, a way of disrupting the regularity of musical time. Specifically, modern scholars and musicians understand syncopation as the shifting of a stressed beat before or after its normal position. But the definition and perception of syncopation actually underwent dramatic changes between the fourteenth and the sixteenth centuries. This project will reevaluate the early history of syncopation (c.1300–1600) in notated Western music, exploring the relevant theoretical sources and connecting them to musical practice in contemporaneous compositions, in order to create a more detailed and accurate representation of the phenomenon. Thus it will broaden our knowledge of how musical time was conceived and will further our understanding of meter and rhythm in music as a whole.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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93053 Regensburg
Germany
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