Balanço: The Contour of Relative Offbeatness

Year: 2012 Authors: Mehmet Vurkaç

Core claim

Within a typical subset of Rio-style Brazilian music, clave direction can be recognized as a comparison of offbeat prominence in different parts of the phrase: 3-2 (‘outside’) favors offbeats at the beginning and end, while 2-3 (‘inside’) reverses that contour.

Topics

clave direction, partido-alto, Rio-style Brazilian music, onbeat prominence, music technology and education

Domains

rhythm analysis, pattern recognition, binary contour comparison, music, sound art, music technology, education

Methods

double-blind listening experiments, expert and mid-level drummer observation, bootstrap neural-network techniques, literature search, performance in the idiom

Media

samba rhythm patterns, cuica pattern, binary onset sequences, swing metaphor, music databases

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