Rebecca Leydon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1645084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Leydon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Leydon |
| SIGNATURE | LEYDON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Clean as a Whistle
This essay attempts to develop an interpretative framework for effects of timbre in selected twentieth-century instrumental music. My approach draws on ethnomusicologist Cornelia Fales's concept of "perceptualization" in order to establish expressive associations of transparency and turbidity with sinusoidal purity and spectral noise, respectively. I explore how these sonic tokens of purity and impurity are in turn mapped onto concepts of spiritu…
Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer
Juan Garcia Esquivel's compositions and band arrangements of the late 1950s and early 1960s - his so-called 'space-age bachelor pad music' - feature exotic and futuristic instruments, dazzling stereo effects, textless vocalisations, and an array of colourful harmonic resources. This paper situates Esquivel's music within the venerable tradition of the Pastoral mode, a specialised narrative mode met in certain literary and musical works. I begin w…
Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes
While minimalism as a style is characterized by the monolithic technique of "musematic" repetition, the style is, at the same time, capable of projecting a broad range of differentiated affects. Building on the work of Naomi Cumming and Richard Middleton, this paper develops a preliminary typology of "musematic" tropes, based on the intended and experiential effects of ostinato techniques. One particular trope, which I term the "aphasic," is expl…
Clean as a Whistle
This essay attempts to develop an interpretative framework for effects of timbre in selected twentieth-century instrumental music. My approach draws on ethnomusicologist Cornelia Fales's concept of "perceptualization" in order to establish expressive associations of transparency and turbidity with sinusoidal purity and spectral noise, respectively. I explore how these sonic tokens of purity and impurity are in turn mapped onto concepts of spiritu…
Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer
Juan Garcia Esquivel's compositions and band arrangements of the late 1950s and early 1960s - his so-called 'space-age bachelor pad music' - feature exotic and futuristic instruments, dazzling stereo effects, textless vocalisations, and an array of colourful harmonic resources. This paper situates Esquivel's music within the venerable tradition of the Pastoral mode, a specialised narrative mode met in certain literary and musical works. I begin w…
Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes
While minimalism as a style is characterized by the monolithic technique of "musematic" repetition, the style is, at the same time, capable of projecting a broad range of differentiated affects. Building on the work of Naomi Cumming and Richard Middleton, this paper develops a preliminary typology of "musematic" tropes, based on the intended and experiential effects of ostinato techniques. One particular trope, which I term the "aphasic," is expl…
Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes
While minimalism as a style is characterized by the monolithic technique of "musematic" repetition, the style is, at the same time, capable of projecting a broad range of differentiated affects. Building on the work of Naomi Cumming and Richard Middleton, this paper develops a preliminary typology of "musematic" tropes, based on the intended and experiential effects of ostinato techniques. One particular trope, which I term the "aphasic," is expl…
Ces nymphes, je les veux perpétuer
Juan Garcia Esquivel's compositions and band arrangements of the late 1950s and early 1960s - his so-called 'space-age bachelor pad music' - feature exotic and futuristic instruments, dazzling stereo effects, textless vocalisations, and an array of colourful harmonic resources. This paper situates Esquivel's music within the venerable tradition of the Pastoral mode, a specialised narrative mode met in certain literary and musical works. I begin w…
Clean as a Whistle
This essay attempts to develop an interpretative framework for effects of timbre in selected twentieth-century instrumental music. My approach draws on ethnomusicologist Cornelia Fales's concept of "perceptualization" in order to establish expressive associations of transparency and turbidity with sinusoidal purity and spectral noise, respectively. I explore how these sonic tokens of purity and impurity are in turn mapped onto concepts of spiritu…
Art (3 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Literature (2 works) · Musical (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (1 works)