Ralf Von Appen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1602910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralf Von Appen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralf |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Appen |
| SIGNATURE | VON APPEN R |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8850-5617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finding a Fingerprint. Microtiming and Tempo Variability in Five Renowned Rock Drummers
In this article, we analyze microtiming and tempo variability in the music of five renowned rock drummers: Ringo Starr, Mitch Mitchell, Stewart Copeland, Phil Rudd, and Meg White. Using the applications Moises and Sonic Visualiser, we isolated the drum stems of 79 studio and live recordings and determined exact quarter-note positions in backbeat patterns. We used metrics such as the normalized absolute deviation beat sum, average beat coefficient…
Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music
Contents: Introduction, Ralf von Appen, Andre Doehring, Dietrich Helms, Allan F. Moore. Part I Listening Alone: Death cab for Cutie's 'I will follow you into the dark' as exemplar of conven-tional tonal behaviour in recent rock music, Walter Everett Ear candy: what makes Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' tick?, Ralf von Appen Metrical ambiguity or microrhythmic flexibility? Analysing groove in 'Nasty Girl' by Destiny's Child, Anne Danielsen Pragmatic 'Poker Face…
Pop zwischen Historismus und Geschichtslosigkeit. Kanonbildungen in der populären Musik
Der Wert der Musik
Was bietet uns Musik, dass wir ihr so viel Zeit und Geld opfern? Wie soll sie beschaffen sein, damit sie die hohen Erwartungen erfüllt? Warum riskieren wir für sie das Gehör, warum gehen wir das Risiko illegaler Downloads ein? Um individuelle Bewertungen von Musik - und damit zusammenhängend: den Wert der Musik für den Menschen - zu verstehen, analysiert die Studie zunächst intensiv »Amazon«-Kundenrezensionen aktueller Alben von Robbie Williams, …
Nevermind The Beatles, here's Exile 61 and Nico
For this article the authors analysed thirty-eight lists of 'The 100 greatest albums of all time' type. As the findings demonstrate, a canon of popular music has evolved which shows strong tendencies towards stability in featuring albums from the late 1960s (especially those by The Beatles), while only a few albums from the 1990s have gained 'classic' status. The canon's contents and exclusions are explained by the social dispositions of the part…
Die Wertungskriterien Der Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar-Jury Vor Dem Hintergrund Sozialer Milieus Und Kulturindustrieller Strategien
Helga de la Motte-Haber (Hrsg.)
Helmut Rösing, Albrecht Schneider, Martin Pfleiderer (Hrsg.)
Nevermind The Beatles, here's Exile 61 and Nico
For this article the authors analysed thirty-eight lists of 'The 100 greatest albums of all time' type. As the findings demonstrate, a canon of popular music has evolved which shows strong tendencies towards stability in featuring albums from the late 1960s (especially those by The Beatles), while only a few albums from the 1990s have gained 'classic' status. The canon's contents and exclusions are explained by the social dispositions of the part…
Helmut Rösing, Albrecht Schneider, Martin Pfleiderer (Hrsg.)
Die Wertungskriterien Der Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar-Jury Vor Dem Hintergrund Sozialer Milieus Und Kulturindustrieller Strategien
Helga de la Motte-Haber (Hrsg.)
Nevermind The Beatles, here's Exile 61 and Nico
For this article the authors analysed thirty-eight lists of 'The 100 greatest albums of all time' type. As the findings demonstrate, a canon of popular music has evolved which shows strong tendencies towards stability in featuring albums from the late 1960s (especially those by The Beatles), while only a few albums from the 1990s have gained 'classic' status. The canon's contents and exclusions are explained by the social dispositions of the part…
Der Wert der Musik
Was bietet uns Musik, dass wir ihr so viel Zeit und Geld opfern? Wie soll sie beschaffen sein, damit sie die hohen Erwartungen erfüllt? Warum riskieren wir für sie das Gehör, warum gehen wir das Risiko illegaler Downloads ein? Um individuelle Bewertungen von Musik - und damit zusammenhängend: den Wert der Musik für den Menschen - zu verstehen, analysiert die Studie zunächst intensiv »Amazon«-Kundenrezensionen aktueller Alben von Robbie Williams, …
Pop zwischen Historismus und Geschichtslosigkeit. Kanonbildungen in der populären Musik
Song Interpretation in 21st-Century Pop Music
Contents: Introduction, Ralf von Appen, Andre Doehring, Dietrich Helms, Allan F. Moore. Part I Listening Alone: Death cab for Cutie's 'I will follow you into the dark' as exemplar of conven-tional tonal behaviour in recent rock music, Walter Everett Ear candy: what makes Ke$ha's 'Tik Tok' tick?, Ralf von Appen Metrical ambiguity or microrhythmic flexibility? Analysing groove in 'Nasty Girl' by Destiny's Child, Anne Danielsen Pragmatic 'Poker Face…
Finding a Fingerprint. Microtiming and Tempo Variability in Five Renowned Rock Drummers
In this article, we analyze microtiming and tempo variability in the music of five renowned rock drummers: Ringo Starr, Mitch Mitchell, Stewart Copeland, Phil Rudd, and Meg White. Using the applications Moises and Sonic Visualiser, we isolated the drum stems of 79 studio and live recordings and determined exact quarter-note positions in backbeat patterns. We used metrics such as the normalized absolute deviation beat sum, average beat coefficient…
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