The Corpus as an Artifact of Musical Change: Studies in Style, Transmission, and Diffusion - Talk by Prof. Daniel Shanahan, The Ohio State University
Event details
| Date | 29.10.2019 |
| Hour | 11:00 › 13:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Daniel Shanahan |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract
Musical corpora have been used to examine the changing aspects of compositional style (e.g. Albrecht and Huron, 2013; Broze and Shanahan, 2013), as well as mutable aspects of the "situated cognition" of an audience (Byros, 2009). Recent work (Shanahan and Albrecht, 2019) has employed a combination of corpus and behavioral research to explore the nature of physical and cognitive constraints on transmission, and I will follow up on this work here, discussing a theory of musical change through both corpus and behavioral approaches. Additionally, I will discuss how we might employ symbolic corpora to inform future theories of musical change, even when such corpora are lacking in data or are of unknown origin.
Bio
Daniel Shanahan is assistant professor of music theory and cognition at The Ohio State University. His work has been published in Music Perception, The Journal of New Music Research, The Journal of Jazz Studies, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Cognition and Emotion, and Musicae Scientiae, among others, and he is the co-editor of Empirical Musicology Review and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. He also serves on the editorial boards of Musicae Scientiae, Indiana Theory Review, Engaging Students, and Music Theory Spectrum. He previously taught at the University of Virginia and Louisiana State University, where he was the director of the Music Cognition and Computation Lab. He holds a PhD from the University of Dublin, Trinity College.
DH Research Seminar
The DH Research Seminar is a series of talks organised by the Digital Humanities Institute given by researchers from a wide range of backgrounds and aiming at presenting the vast array of subjects covered by Digital Humanities.
Be sure to come. Listen to the talk and participate if you wish in the Q&A session, and continue to discuss the subject with the speaker and the other participants in a relaxed athmosphere during the apero that will follow the talk.
Musical corpora have been used to examine the changing aspects of compositional style (e.g. Albrecht and Huron, 2013; Broze and Shanahan, 2013), as well as mutable aspects of the "situated cognition" of an audience (Byros, 2009). Recent work (Shanahan and Albrecht, 2019) has employed a combination of corpus and behavioral research to explore the nature of physical and cognitive constraints on transmission, and I will follow up on this work here, discussing a theory of musical change through both corpus and behavioral approaches. Additionally, I will discuss how we might employ symbolic corpora to inform future theories of musical change, even when such corpora are lacking in data or are of unknown origin.
Bio
Daniel Shanahan is assistant professor of music theory and cognition at The Ohio State University. His work has been published in Music Perception, The Journal of New Music Research, The Journal of Jazz Studies, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Cognition and Emotion, and Musicae Scientiae, among others, and he is the co-editor of Empirical Musicology Review and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. He also serves on the editorial boards of Musicae Scientiae, Indiana Theory Review, Engaging Students, and Music Theory Spectrum. He previously taught at the University of Virginia and Louisiana State University, where he was the director of the Music Cognition and Computation Lab. He holds a PhD from the University of Dublin, Trinity College.
DH Research Seminar
The DH Research Seminar is a series of talks organised by the Digital Humanities Institute given by researchers from a wide range of backgrounds and aiming at presenting the vast array of subjects covered by Digital Humanities.
Be sure to come. Listen to the talk and participate if you wish in the Q&A session, and continue to discuss the subject with the speaker and the other participants in a relaxed athmosphere during the apero that will follow the talk.
Practical information
- General public
- Free