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Summary
This group includes music theorists, musicologists, and composers working on approaches to music analysis that address timbre and orchestration. The group merges previous working groups focusing on the music of the 18th and 19th centuries and the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Over the past year, the group has expanded its scope to include analysis outside of the European canon
Workgroup Leader
Robert Hasegawa
Contact: robert.hasegawa[at]mcgill.ca
Overview
The Timbre and Orchestration Analysis Working Group focuses on the development and application of music analysis tools that consider timbre and orchestration, including tools developed within ACTOR by the Orchestration Taxonomies Group and new methodologies that relate timbre and orchestration to other analytical categories including pitch, rhythm, and form. As music analysts, we seek to explore the role of timbre in a variety of musical contexts from the Baroque Era to the present day. By creating and sharing analyses that address timbre through conference and journal pubilciation, the group seeks to encourage a wider engagement with timbre and orchestration within the fields of music theory and musicology.
Subgroups
CORE Analysis Subgroup: Robert Hasegawa, Stephen McAdams
Active or Envisioned Projects
CORE (Composer-Performer Orchestration Research Ensembles) Analysis Subgroup: Research on scores, recordings, and other data collected from the CORE project, including perspectives from music perception, analysis of instrumental blend, timbre semantics, and study of orchestrational problem solving.
Individual and collaborative projects on music by composers including Rebecca Saunders, Georgia Spiropoulos, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and others.
Oxford Handbook of Orchestration Studies
Quatuor Bozzini project (this is actually a research-creation project led by Bob. it has another official name)
Les espaces acoustiques
SMT Timbre and Orchestration interest group
TOR publications
ACTOR-themed issue of Circuit: musiques contemporaines
CNSMDP project
Connect
SLACK Channel
Contact Andre Martins de Oliveira if there are any issues accessing this Slack Channel
