Description
Composer Fabien Lévy will join McGill researchers in music theory, composition, and music perception in a symposium co-sponsored by ACTOR (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) and CIRMMT's research areas 3 and 4. Levy, author of Le compositeur, son oreille et ses machines à écrire : Déconstruire les grammatologies du musical pour mieux les composer (The Composer, His Ear, and His Typewriters: Deconstructing Musical Grammatologies to Better Compose Them), will give a morning lecture on “functional orchestration,” followed in the afternoon by shorter presentations on aspects of analytical and orchestrative theory applied to the first movement of Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 and a practical analysis workshop. This workshop is co-sponsored by ACTOR, CIRMMT Research Areas 3 and 4, and the Schulich School of Music's Composition and Music Technology departments.
Schedule
10h30-12h30 - Fabien Lévy : Functional Orchestration
12h30-14h00 - Lunch
14:00-14:30 - William Caplin : Musical form in Schubert's Eighth Symphony, first movement
14:30-15:00 - Stephen McAdams : Orchestral grouping effects (Perception)
15:00-15:45 - Denys Bouliane : Orchestration techniques
15h45-16h00 - Coffee break
16:00-18:00 - Workshop on orchestration analysis
16:00-16:50 - Three WorkGroups with Lévy, Bouliane, and McAdams will use and discuss the methods provided by Orchestral Functions, Techniques, and Perception Effects, respectively, in the analysis of the Exposition of Schubert's Eighth Symphony, first movement.
17h05-18h00 - The three working groups will meet in plenary session to compare and discuss their approaches.
18h00-19h00 - Reception
Call for participation
For the workshop portion of the Symposium, which will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., we are specifically looking for around 30 participants who have ideally attended the presentations and wish to engage in a critical analysis of one of the three approaches currently being developed with ACTOR. Design and test the IT tools implemented. Ideally, we would like to see participation from composers, orchestrators, performers, music theorists, musicologists, and students of cognitive science and music technology.
16:00-16:50 - Three workgroups will be formed around Lévy, Bouliane, and McAdams and will use and discuss the methods provided by the three perspectives (Orchestral Functions, Techniques, and Perceptual Effects, respectively) in the analysis of the exposition of Schubert's Eighth Symphony, first movement.
16h50-17h30 - The three working groups will meet in plenary session to compare and discuss their approaches.
If you would like to actively participate in the working groups, please send an email to Professor Denys Bouliane (denys.bouliane[at]mcgill.ca) by February 17, 2020, and indicate your preference for working groups. We will do our best to accommodate your first or second choice, but we must distribute participants among the groups as much as possible. However, we can assure you that each group will be very dynamic!
Participants will receive:
1. A special FREE package of OrchPlay software (www.orchplaymusic.com) including the multichannel version and two stereo recordings of the complete exposition of the first movement of Schubert's Eighth Symphony.
2. A FREE beta version of OrchView (Orchestral Grouping EFFECTS with Schubert's score ready for annotation) followed by an updated version including Orchestral TECHNIQUES, which will be released in late 2020.