The first Workshop of Winter Quarter will be held on Wednesday, January 16.

Hyunree Cho, Ph.D. Candidate in Music History and Theory
Recursion and Interval (Part I)

This is the second chapter of my dissertation, Analysis as Poetry: Musical Transformation, Hermeneutics, and Music analysis. The main project of the dissertation is to offer an account of Lewinian transformational theory as a theory of musical meaning. This chapter, in tandem with the following one, develops a pragmatics of music analysis in which “poetic intervals” and meanings are tightly integrated rather than loosely coupled. In this workshop, I will particularly focus, however, on one of the seemingly least meaning-related aspects of our analytical ethos, that is, on the concept of recursivity. The concept’s at-a-glance view, one’s experience of it in time, and its appropriateness as a basic anchoring concept in various transformational sorts of analysis will be discussed.

The workshop will meet in Logan 802 from 4:30 to 6 PM. August Sheehy will serve as respondent.

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Refreshments will be served.

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