[Smt-talk] Metric Perception Studies (was re Binary Bias...)

[Daniel Wolf]

See Clarence Barlow (aka Klarentz Bahlo)'s "Bus journey to Parametron:  
(all about Çogluotobüsişletmesi)", published as an issue of the Feedback  
Papers (Cologne).  It is the record of a research program leading to a  
composition — thus more speculative than analytic music theory — and the  
writing style is unorthodox (and sometimes very funny), but he does  
address exactly your question in a large number of metres.

Daniel Wolf
composer, Frankfurt
djwolf at snafu.de


On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:21:07 +0100, art samplaski <agsvtp at hotmail.com>  
wrote:


> Slightly tangential but in connection with Laurel's query,
> has anybody ever heard of studies on the relative salience
> of different metric beats and/or attack points within beats?
> (E.g., how perceptually salient is beat 2 in duple vs. beat
> 2 in triple vs. in quadruple, etc.? Or, how relatively
> salient are the 4 16th-note attack points in a beat of 2/4,
> 3/4, or 4/4?)
>