<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Linda Seltzer's alap instance is well taken. Among other well known non-European genres, the short introductory buka (also bubuka or bubuka opaq-opaq) in gamelan pieces and the taqsim of Arab classical music come to mind; within European tradition, preambulum/tastar de corda introductions from the 15th century onward. </span>Establishing or testing out a movement's</div><div> tuning or mode or introducing some of its motifs before its more clearly pulsatile main part has been pretty widespread. </div><div><br></div><div>Arguably more interesting are passages in the middle of an instrumental piece that depart substantially from the more clearly metrical rhythms that precede and follow them: cadenzas, of course, as well as interjected recitatives and fermatas. 'Arguably more interesting' because according
to a current view a pulsation is supposed to persist after the actual onsets it comprises. When, then, does a metre end? And after an interruption, does it start over 'from scratch' or resume? </div><div><br></div><div>Jay Rahn, York University </div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Linda Seltzer <lseltzer@alumni.caltech.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> smt-talk@societymusictheory.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 24, 2011 7:57:01 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Smt-talk] Pieces with
improvisatory openings<br></font><br>That's how most Indian music works (improvisatory alap and other sections <br>- such as jor and jhala in North Indian music - preceding composition -<br>gat)<br><br>Linda Seltzer<br>Post-enrolled grad student, Princeton<br>Independent consultant, Intellectual Ventures<br>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org" href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org" target="_blank">http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org</a><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>