Carol Krumhansl: Geometries of pitch and time in music
A distinguished lecture from Carol Krumhansl, Professor of Psychology at Cornell University.
November 07, 2022
17:00 - 18:00
Tanna Hall, 527 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest
The lecture will take place in TANNA SCHULICH HALL, followed by a wine and cheese reception in the lobby of the Elizabeth Wirth Music Building. This event is free and open to the general public.
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Abstract
This lecture explores the seemingly natural affinities between music and geometry. Various kinds of geometric representations have been applied to music: low-dimensional spatial representations, (sub)groups and group transformations, and Quinn’s balance pan representation of Lewin’s Fourier properties. Results will be presented in which these geometric representational are applied to tonal and rhythmic hierarchies, key distances, and harmonic expectations.
Biography
Carol Lynne Krumhansl is Professor of Psychology at Cornell University. The Music Cognition Laboratory, founded in 1980, has studied a wide range of topics. The experiments on tonality helped establish the psychological reality of music-theoretic concepts. Contemporary proposals on melodic structure and musical tension have been tested and extended to music from other cultures and post-tonal music. Recent research has used popular music to study memory representations and associated autobiographical memories. A long-standing interest is the application of mathematical models to represent patterns in music.