Music Cognition Symposium 2001-2002

December 1, 2001: Universals in Language and Music

Elissa Newport (UR Brain & Cognitive Sciences), "Universals in Language"

Discussion of Reading: Lerdahl & Jackendoff, _A Generative Theory of Tonal Music_, Chapter 11 "Musical Universals" (pp. 278-301); discussion leader: Elizabeth Marvin (Eastman School)

Interdisciplinary panel of respondents: Elissa Newport (UR Brain & Cognitive Sciences), Jeff Runner (UR Linguistics), Ellen Koskoff (Eastman, Ethnomusicology), Matthew Brown (Eastman, Music Theory), Carol Krumhansl (Cornell, Psychology), Michael Owren (Cornell, Psychology)

October 27, 2001: Meter and Melody

Steve Laitz (Eastman School of Music), "A general introduction to rhythm and meter in music"

Erin Hannon (Cornell University), "The Role of Melodic Cues in Perceiving Meter"

Chris Bartlette and David Temperley (Eastman School of Music), "Parallelism as a Factor in Metrical Analysis"

April 4-5, 2002: Guest Residency--Dan Levitin (McGill University)

Thursday, April 4 - Lecture (Co-sponsored with Mark Bocko, Electrical Engineering): "Perception of simultaneity: implications for synthesizer design and the use of the internet for remote musical performance collaborations."

Friday, April 5 - Eastman School of Music/Music Cognition Symposium: "The perception of music in noise: Evidence from filtered white noise and a new perceptual illusion"

May 4, 2002: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Music Cognition

Ellen Koskoff (Eastman School, Dept. of Musicology), "Topics in World Music Study"

Ernestine McHugh (Eastman School, Humanities Dept.), "Navigating Experience: Cognitive Schemas, Worldviews, and Music"

Article presentation and discussion (moderator: Gavin Chuck, Eastman): Jeff Pressing, "Cognitive isomorphisms between pitch and Rhythm in world musics: West Africa, the Balkans, and Western Tonality." Studies in Music 17 (1983), 38-61.

Music Cognition Symposium 2002-2003

November 9, 2002: Music-Language Connections

Joel Snyder (Cornell University), "Toward a Neurophysiology Of Meter: Correlates in Early Gamma-Band (20-60 Hz) Activity"

Joyce McDonough (University of Rochester), "An Introduction To Stress and Meter in Language"

Dirk-Jan Povel (Nijmegen University), "The interaction of harmony and contour in melody perception"

December 7, 2002: Recent Research by Symposium Participants

Sarah Creel (Brain & Cognitive Sciences, U of R), "Thinking outside the music box: Exploring musical preferences with artificial tonesets"

Jon Prince (Brain & Cognitive Sciences, U of R), "Development of Harmony Perception in Children"

Paul Miller (ESM), "Sounds in Space: Stockhausen's Use of the Spatial Dimension in Composition"

Sam Ng (ESM), "Temporal Expectancy at the Level of Musical Phrases: A Study of Expectancy Strength in Four-measure and Non-four-measure Phrases"

Erin Hannon (Dept. of Psychology, Cornell), "Constraints and Biases in Metrical Processing"

March 1, 2003: Musical Acoustics/Psychoacoustics: joint presentations by Dave Headlam and Mark Bocko

Introduction to the Music Research Lab

Dimensions of psycho-acoustic perception

Musical Tele-presence: Facilitating Network Performance

April 12, 2003: Guest Speaker: Robert Zatorre (Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University)

Elissa Newport and Dick Aslin (UR Brain & Cognitive Sciences), "Tutorial: Brain and imaging techniques for non-neuroscientists"

Robert Zatorre, "Structure and Function of the human auditory cortex: Music and Speech"

Music Cognition Symposium 2003-2004

November 22, 2003: Guest Speaker: John Sloboda (University of Keele, UK)

John Sloboda, "Explorations in Music Performance"

Panel discussion of Profesor Sloboda's talk with Donna Brink Fox (ESM, Music Education), Elizabeth Marvin (ESM, Music Theory), Carol Krumhansl(Cornell, Psychology)

Article presentation/discussion: "Communication of Emotions in Vocal Expression and Music Performance: Different Channels, Same Code?" by Patrik N. Juslin and Petri Laukka. Discussion leaders Joyce McDonough (UR, linguistics) and Gavin Chuck (ESM, music theory)

January 23-24, 2004: Guest Residency: Caroline Palmer (McGill University)

Theory Department lecture (Friday): "Role of Interpretations in Music Performance"

Music Cognition Symposium (Saturday): Discussion on reading: John Sloboda, The Musical Mind, Chapter 3, pp. 67-101. Discussion leader: David Temperley.

Caroline Palmer, "Working Memory in Music Performance and Speech"

April 24, 2004: Probabilistic (Bayesian) Modeling of Music

David Temperley, "An Introduction to Bayesian Modeling as Applied to Music"

Panos Mavromatis, "Bayesian Learning of Musical Grammars from Data"

Music Cognition Symposium 2004-2005

December 4, 2004: Absolute Pitch

Betsy Marvin (Eastman School of Music), "AP Research Overview: The Mystery and Science of Absolute Pitch"

Elissa Newport (UR Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department), "Research Report: AP in Animals"

Joyce McDonough, "Tutorial: Lexical and Post-Lexical Uses of Tone in Language."

Discussion of recent research led by Diana Deutsch positing a tone language hypothesis for AP acquisition (Marvin & McDonough, leaders)

March 26, 2005: Probabilistic Modeling in Music Cognition

Elissa Newport (UR Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department), "Statistics in Language and Vision"

Carol Krumhansl, Cornell University, Psychology Department, "Musical Structure and the ADIOS Model: Automatic Distillation of Structure"

April 23, 2005: Experimental Work on Performance Expression

David Temperley (Eastman School of Music), "Introduction to Experimental Work on Performance Expression: An Overview of Some Important Research"

Christopher Bartlette (Eastman School of Music), "The Role of Harmonic Distance in Musical Performance: A Preliminary Study"

David Temperley and Kelly Francis, "Syncopation and Rubato in Piano Performance: A Report on Work in Progress"

Music Cognition Symposium 2006-2007

October 14, 2006:
Timbre: Perception, Technology, and Composition Cornell University, Lincoln Hall B21
2:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Introduction by Carol Krumhansl, Cornell University

Panel discussion:
Dexter Morrill (Colgate University)
Jean-Claude Risset (CNRS, Marseilles)
Allan Schindler (Eastman School of Music)
Kevin Ernst (Cornell University)

November 10, 2006:
Music and Computing Projects Eastman School of Music, Room ESM 320
3:30 p.m.

Elaine Chew (Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Area, University of Southern California)
"Interactive Music Systems Based on Analysis of Music and Its Performance."

Dirk-Jan Povel (Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information), “A Computer Model of Melody Generation.”

November 30-December 2, 2006: Guest Residency: Eugene Narmour

Distinguished music psychologist and Eastman alumnus Eugene Narmour visited Eastman for a three-day residency. Narmour is Edmund J. Kahn Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania and former President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. His theories draw upon those of Leonard Meyer on expectation, and his recent work has focused on ways that music-cognitive study can inform performance and memory.

Thursday, November 30, 10:00-11:30 in OSL 101: "Some Cognitive Principles for Performers."

Friday, December 1, 3:30-5:00 in ESM 320: "Scaled Harmonic Implication and its Realization: Searching for a Unified Cognitive Theory of Music."

Saturday, December 2, 2:00-5:00 in Ciminelli Lounge:
Music Cognition Symposium Carol Krumhansl (Cornell University),
"Introduction to Narmour's Implication-Realization Theory from a Psychologist's Perspective."

Eugene Narmour,
"The Cortical Structures for Duration and Pitch: An fMRI Study."

Eugene Narmour, "Musical Structuring, Affective Structuring, and Memory."

April 7, 2007

Recent Research by Symposium Participants
Eastman School of Music, Ciminelli Lounge, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Peter Pfordresher (Dept. of Psychology, University of Buffalo),
"Sensitivity to Melodic Organization in Auditory Feedback."

Betsey King (Dept. of Music, Nazareth College),
"Therapeutic Dissonance: An Overview of Neurological Research on the Relationship between Harmony and Attention, with Applications to Clinical Music Therapy."

David Temperley (Dept. of Music Theory, Eastman School of Music),
"A Probabilistic Model of Melody Perception."

Art Samplaski (Ithaca, NY),
"Modeling the Perception of Non-Tonal Sonorities: Some Initial Results."

April 21, 2007: Rhythms of Language and Music
Eastman School of Music, Ciminelli Lounge, 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Aniruddh D. Patel (The Neurosciences Institute),
"Empirical Comparisons of Spoken and Musical Rhythm and Melody."

Joyce McDonough (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Rochester) and Harold Danko (Dept. of Jazz and Contemporary Media, Eastman School of Music),
“Rhythmic Structure of Music and Language: An Empirical Investigation of the Speech Cadence of American Jazz Masters Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton.”