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Certain traditional Scandinavian dance tunes are referred to as being in so-called asymmetrical meter–that is, the beats in the measure are of uneven duration. This study focuses on a specific style of traditional Nowegian dance music called telespringar.
Telespringar is normally played on a Hardanger fiddle. The sound can be characterized as “flowing,” often with smooth transitions from one beat to the next. People familiar with the style of telespringar can nevertheless readily determine the temporal positions of the beats.
Investigating Meter as Shape. A Case Study of Norwegian Telespringar
Mari Romarheim Haugen RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, Department of Musicology,
University of Oslo, Norway
TELESPRINGAR
METHODA fiddler playing telespringar on Hardanger fiddle and a couple dancing telespringar participated in the study.
Participants’ body motion were recorded using an advanced optical infrared motion capture system.
CONCLUSION• The results support the view that
there is a close relationship between musical meter and performers’ periodic body motion.
• The analysis of the performers’ periodic body motions also revealed periodic motion shapes on beat level.
• This suggests that the underlying meter may not only include metrical points in time, but that each metrical beat duration has a corresponding metrical trajectory with a certain shape.
• The fiddler’s foot stamping revealed a stable long–medium–short beat duration pattern.
• The dancers’ vertical hip motion showed a consistent pattern on measure level. The turning points do not correspond to the fiddler’s foot stamping, but the shape corresponds to the durations between the foot stamping.
• The analysis of bowing patterns revealed patterns related to the phrasing of melodic segments. The majority of the directional changes and their associated sonic events coincide with foot stamps and corresponding beat-positions.
ANALYSESSound RESULTS
The fiddler’s foot stampingDancers’ vertical hip motion
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There are smooth transitions between sonic events. The arrival of new events do not result in acute energy peaks.
The bowing patterns are related to the phrasing of melodic segments. The majority of the directional changes
coincide with foot stamps.
The vertical dance motion show a regular pattern at beat
level. Similar to the sound, it has a smooth and flowing quality and unlike the bow motion, there are no beat
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The experience of musical rhythm includes the interaction between sonic rhythms and underlying reference structures, such as meter. This study investigates whether experienced musical meter may not only include such points in time, but also trajectories between the points–that is, metrical shapes.
INTRODUCTION
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