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Revisiting MMF 2019: Rhythmic Techniques in Mark Applebaum's "Catfish"

  • Arthur Zankel Music Center 815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866 United States (map)

Seminar by percussion faculty Micheal Barnes: In "Catfish," Applebaum creates form through different rhythmic techniques, primarily liquidation, grouping dissonance, indeterminate accelerating phase canons, and expanding canons, but consistently thwarts the construction of meter. This theory presentation will explore these metric and rhythmic techniques in this piece and teh overall effect they have on the listener's experience.