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Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Graz 2004: Abstract CIM04 Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology CIM04 Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology Abstracts Hosted by the Department of Musicology, University of Graz Presented by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music Graz/Austria, 15-18 April 2004 Richard Parncutt, Annekatrin Kessler and Fränk Zimmer (April 2004). Abstracts of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology. Graz, Austria: Khil. Layout and cover design: Fränk Zimmer. Printer: Druckerei Khil, Neutorgasse 26, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Publisher: Department of Musicology, University of Graz, Mozartgasse 3, A-8010 Graz, Austria. Orders: [email protected] ISBN: 3-200-00113-5 Copyright 2004 Richard Parncutt, Annekatrin Kessler and Fränk Zimmer Contents Hosts and sponsors 6 Introduction 7 Committees 8 Participating societies 10 Aims and ethos of CIM04 12 Review and evaluation procedures 24 Abstracts in alphabetical order of first author 28 Index 170 Proceedings CD 173 Hosts Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz European Society for the Cognitive Institut für Musikwissenschaft Sciences of Music Sponsors Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz Das Land Steiermark Abteilung Wissenschaft und Forschung Bundesministerium für Bildung, Stadt Graz Wissenschaft und Kultur Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft 6 Introduction The first Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (Graz, Austria, 15-18 April 2004) is a forum for constructive interaction among musicologically relevant disciplines such as acoustics, computing, cultural studies, education, ethnology, history, linguistics, performance, physiology, psychology, sociology, and theory/analysis. CIM04 especially promotes collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, and interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising. The deadline for abstract submission was 31 October 2003. 122 abstract submissions were anonymously peer-reviewed by 26 international experts. On the basis of their reviews, Anna Rita ADDESSI (Bologna), Christian G. ALLESCH (Salzburg), Ali ERGUR (Istanbul), Frauke JURGENSEN (Montreal) and Marc LEMAN (Ghent) were invited to give keynote lectures. 49 further submissions were accepted as talks, 54 accepted as posters, and 14 rejected. All authors were given access to the individual ratings and comments of their reviewers and asked to respond to the comments when preparing their abstracts, proceedings contributions and presentations. Most papers at CIM04 have two authors with contrasting backgrounds. Authors are citizens of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Philippines, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. CIM04 is hosted by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM) and the Department of Musicology, University of Graz and endorsed by 24 participating societies. Graz is an ideal location for a conference on interdisciplinary musicology; its universities include departments of (historical and systematic) musicology; composition, music theory, music history and conducting; music education; ethnomusicology; aesthetics; early music and performance practice; jazz research; electronic music and acoustics; signal processing and speech communication; and broad-band communications. This abstract booklet contains the (revised) abstracts of the invited talks and of all regular talks and posters for which at least one author had registered by the published deadline of 15 March, 2004. The abstracts are listed in alphabetical order of first author regardless of mode of presentation. This book also includes information on the conference’s hosts, sponsors, committees, participating societies, aims, and review procedures. The index includes both the names of all authors of presented papers and the most important words in the paper titles. Inside the back cover is a pouch containing the proceedings CD. CIM04 aims to bring together scholars with contrasting backgrounds to solve common problems emerging from the study of music and musical phenomena. It is about the collaborative collection of convergent evidence. It is about climbing walls and crossing bridges. Welcome to Graz and to CIM04! Richard Parncutt, conference director 7 Committees International Review Committee This committee comprises international experts in various sub- and sister disciplines of musicology. Their anonymous reviews of submitted abstracts are the conference’s guarantee of a high academic standard. Depending on the topics addressed by submitted abstracts, reviewers may have been approached who are not included in this list. Kofi Agawu, Professor of Music Theory, Princeton University, New Jersey. Anders Askenfelt, Associate Professor of Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Judith Becker, Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Anna Maria Busse Berger, Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History and Theory, University of California, Davis. William Caplin, Professor of Music Theory, McGill University, Montréal, Québec. Michèle Castellengo, Laboratoire d’Acoustique Musicale, Université de Paris VI, France. Eric Clarke, Professor of Music, University of Sheffield, England. Nicholas Cook, Professor of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London. Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Professor of Music Education, University of Texas at Dallas. Anselm Gerhard, Professor of Musicology, Universität Bern, Switzerland. Jill Halstead, Lecturer in Jazz and Popular Music, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England. Antoine Hennion, directeur de recherches, Centre de sociologie de l’innovation, Ecole nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, France. Ellie M. Hisama, Director, Institute for Studies in American Music, Associate Professor of Music, Brooklyn College & the Graduate Center, City University, New York. Colin Lawson, Professor of Music, Dean of the London College of Music and Media, and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Thames Valley University, England. Marc Leman, Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Ghent, Belgium. Daniel J. Levitin, Professor of Psychology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec. Fiona McLaughlin, Associate Professor, African Languages and Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainesville. Gary McPherson, Professor, Department of Creative Arts, Hong Kong Institute of Education, China. Elizabeth W. Marvin, Professor of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York. Isabelle Peretz, Professor of Neuropsychology, Université de Montréal, Québec. Rüdiger Schumacher, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Universität zu Köln, Germany. Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Consulting Professor, Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities, Stanford University, California. Ruth Solie, Professor of Music, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Barbara Tillmann, CNRS Researcher, Laboratoire Neurosciences & Systemes Sensoriels Equipe Audition, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France. Menno M. van Zaanen, Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Linguistics, Universiteit van Tilburg, Netherlands. Robert Zatorre, Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec. 8 ESCOM Advisory Committee This committee comprises members of ESCOM who were centrally involved in the organisation of previous ESCOM conferences: Irène Deliège, Professor of Music Psychology, University of Liège, Belgium. Alf Gabrielsson, Professor of Psychology, University of Uppsala, Sweden. Reinhard Kopiez, Professor of Music Psychology, Musikhochschule Hannover, Germany. John Sloboda, Professor of Psychology, Keele University, England. Local Advisory Committee This committee comprises staff of the Department of Musicology, University of Graz (UG), of the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, also known as the Art University of Graz (KUG), and of the Technical University of Graz (TUG): Federico Celestini, Research Fellow in Historic Musicology, UG. Andreas Dorschel, Professor of Music Criticism and Esthetics, KUG. Johann Götschl, Professor of Philosophy, UG. Gerd Grupe, Professor of Ethnomusicology, KUG. Robert Höldrich, Professor of Electronic Music, KUG. Gernot Kubin, Professor of Nonlinear Signal Processing, TUG. Werner Jauk, Lecturer in Systematic Musicology, UG. Franz Kerschbaumer, Professor of Jazz Research, KUG. Kordula Knaus, Assistant in Historical Musicology, UG. Leopold Mathelitsch, Professor of Theoretical Physics, UG. Peter Revers, Professor of Music History, KUG. Michael Walter, Professor of Musicology, UG. Gerhard Wanker, Professor of Music Education, KUG. Local Organizing Committee This committee is responsible for all aspects of conference organization: Richard Parncutt, Professor of Systematic Musicology, UG (conference director). Annekatrin Kessler, Student Assistant (academic coordinator). Fränk Zimmer, Student Assistant (technical coordinator). Sieglinde Petzl, Departmental Secretary (administrative coordinator). Support team The support team consists mainly of local and international musicology students. Support team members will be available throughout the conference to answer questions, solve unexpected problems and generally make sure that things run smoothly. They are: Werner Goebl (coordinator) Nora Bammer, Marta Blazanovic, Angelika Dorfer, Michael Gerersdorfer, Sévérine Grassin, Ivana Hausknecht, Manuela Marin, Margit Painsi, Thomas Russold, Marina Stanic, Ludwig Wagner, Gundi Wilscher, Lukas Wohlgenannt.
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