This article offers a model of musical meaning that allows for the cultural construction of musical meaning, while at the same time acknowledging the existence of constraints upon the meanings any given music may support under any given circumstances; in this way it aims to  ll the void between existing approaches that understand musical meaning as either inherent or socially constructed. I illustrate the argument through Tovey’s and McClary’s contrasting readings of the recapitulation in the  rst movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and suggest some ways in which theory and analysis may enter into a constructive relationship with the broadened critical agenda of contemporary musicology. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.217 on Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:06:54 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

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Theorizing Musical Meaning

Musical performance in a cultural context has always been inextricably linked to the human body, yet, the body has played only a minor role in the creation and performance of electronic music. This paper will consider aesthetic and technical issues relating to: (1) the social/cultural construction of contexts for chamber music and dance; (2) our construction of gestural “composed instruments” and integrated sonic display devices; (3) concepts of the integration of the dancing body and the musical body; and (4) new approaches to interactive music and improvisation in a “composed context.” Our approach prioritizes music as “activity” in both instrument design and sonic display. We find physicality, feedback, and gesture—the reintegration of the body in electronic music—are all key to maintaining and extending musical/social traditions within a technological context.

Physicality and Feedback: A Focus on the Body in the Performance of Electronic Music

The notion of groove is fundamental to jazz culture and the term yields a rich set of understandings for jazz musicians. Within the literature, no single perspective on groove exists and many questions remain about the relationship between timing processes, phenomenal experience and musical structures in making sense of groove.

In this account, the experience and meaning of groove is theorised as emerging from two forms of sharedness. Firstly, a primary intersubjectivity that arises through the timing behaviours of the players; this could be likened to the 'mutual tuning-in' described in social phenomenology. It is proposed that this tuning-in is accomplished through the mechanism of entrainment. The second form of sharedness is understood as the shared temporal models, the cultural knowledge, that musicians make use of in their playing together.

Methodologically, this study makes use of detailed investigation of timing data from live performances by three jazz trios, framed by in-depth, semi-structured interview material and steers a new course between existing ethnographic work on jazz and more psychologically informed studies of timing.

The findings of the study point towards significant social and structural effects on the groove between players. The impact of musical role on groove and timing is demonstrated and significant temporal models, whose syntactic relations suggest musical proximity or distance, are shown to have a corresponding effect on timing within the trios. The musician's experience of groove is discussed as it relates to the objective timing data and reveals a complex set of understandings involving temporality, consciousness and communication.

In the light of these findings, groove is summarised as the feeling of entrainment, inflected through cultural models and expressed through the cultural norms of jazz.

Feeling the groove : shared time and its meanings for three jazz trios

Theory and Analysis of Classic Heavy Metal Harmony

The mention of drummers today usually conjures up images of male musicians. Certainly female percussionists exist, but whether for rock combos or symphony orchestras, we tend to think of men, not women, with drum-sticks in hand. Has it always been this way? Is it that way in other cultures?

Of Drums and Damsels: Women's Performance in Ancient Israel

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