Steve Reich’s Clapping Music and the Yoruba Bell Timeline

Year: 2006 Authors: Justin Colannino; Francisco Gómez; Godfried T. Toussaint

Core claim

Reich’s selected pattern shows greater rhythmic change, more varied transformations, and stronger salience than the Yoruba source timeline.

Topics

minimalism, rhythmic analysis, syncopation, phase shifting, Yoruba bell timeline

Domains

combinatorics, distance measures, phylogenetic graph, rhythm metrics, music composition, ethnomusicology, sound art, performance

Methods

comparative analysis, syncopation computation, dissimilarity matrix, phylogenetic graph

Media

hand clapping, rhythmic pattern, Yoruba bell timeline, musical score

Source status

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