Near-unisons in Afro-Cuban Ensemble Drumming

Working with an original corpus of Afro-Cuban drumming recordings shared by Andrew McGraw, I examine the nature and extent of non-simultaneous attacks between ensemble players. Quantitative analyses of ~30,000 drum onset times in four- and five-player performances reveal that these non-simultaneitie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fernando Benadon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2017-01-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i2.4957