Bechtold Toni Amadeus HSLU M

Toni Amadeus Bechtold Toni Amadeus Bechtold

Research Associate

Bechtold Toni Amadeus HSLU M

Lucerne School of Music

Room 3.OG
Arsenalstrasse 28a
6010 Kriens


CC Music Performance Research

Research Associate

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Projects

Research projects

  • The Groovy Drum Beat: Ein Workshop zur Groove-Forschung für Sekundarschulen und Gymnasien
  • Der Einfluss von Bass und Schlagzeug auf das Groove-Empfinden in der Populärmusik
  • Schaffhausen Jazz Archive
  • Musikalische Strukturanalyse als «Data Mining» – Harmonische Modelle in der Popmusik
  • PrüfungsApp
  • The Fundaments of Groove: Pilotprojekt
  • The Fundaments of Groove: A Systematic Exploration of Drum Patterns in Popular Music
  • Irene Schweizer
  • LARA: Lucerne Audio Recording Analyzer
  • Growing Up – Jazz in Europa 1960-1980 (Konferenz)
  • Webportal Willisau Jazz Archive

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Senn, Olivier; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian; Jerjen, Raphael; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Rose, Dawn; Baldassarre, Antonio; Sigrist, Carlo & Alessandri, Elena (2023). An SEM Approach to Validating the Psychological Model of Musical Groove. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 49(3), 290-305. doi: 10.1037/xhp0001087
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Curry, Ben & Witek, Maria (2023). Understanding the Relationship Between Catchiness and Groove: A Qualitative Study with Popular Music Creators. Music perception: an interdisciplinary journal, 40(5), 353-372. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2023.40.5.353
  • Stupacher, Jan; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Senn, Olivier (2023). A text mining approach to the use of “groove” in everyday language. Psychology of Music, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356231205883
  • Senn, Olivier; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Jerjen, Rafael; Kilchenmann, Lorenz & Hoesl, Florian (2023). Three Psychometric Scales for Groove Research: Inner Representation of Temporal Regularity, Time-Related Interest, and Energetic Arousal. Music & Science, 6, 1-16. doi: 10.1177/20592043231185663
  • Düvel, Nina; Labonde, Philippe; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Senn, Olivier & Kopiez, Reinhard (2021). Experience of Groove Questionnaire: German Translation and Validation. Music perception: an interdisciplinary journal, 39(1), 83-99. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2021.39.1.83
  • Hosken, Fred; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian; Kilchenmann, Lorenz & Senn, Olivier (2021). Drum Pattern Corpora. Empirical Musicology Review (EMR), 16(1), 114-123. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v16i1.7642
  • Senn, Olivier; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Rose, Dawn; Schmidt Câmara, Guilherme; Düvel, Nina; Jerjen, Rafael; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Hoesl, Florian; Baldassarre, Antonio & Alessandri, Elena (2020). Experience of Groove Questionnaire: Instrument Development and Initial Validation. Music perception: an interdisciplinary journal, 38(1), 46-65. doi: 10.1525/mp.2020.38.1.46
  • Senn, Olivier; Rose, Dawn; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Hoesl, Florian; Jerjen, Rafael; Baldassarre, Antonio & Alessandri, Elena (04.06.2019). Preliminaries to a Psychological Model of Musical Groove. Frontiers in Psychology / Performance Science, 10, 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01228
  • Senn, Olivier; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Kilchenmann, Lorenz (15.04.2019). Taste and familiarity affect the experience of groove in popular music. Musicae Scientiae, 1-22. doi: doi.org/10.1177/1029864919839172
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Senn, Olivier (24.09.2018). Articulation and Dynamics Influence the Perceptual Attack Time of Saxophone Sounds. Frontiers in Psychology / Performance Science, 1-11.
  • Senn, Olivier; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Hoesl, Florian (2018). Groove in drum patterns as a function of both rhythmic properties and listeners' attitudes. PLoS ONE, 13(6), 1-33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199604

Publications and presentations - Article, review; not peer reviewed

  • Hoesl, Florian; Jerjen, Rafael; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Rose, Dawn; Alessandri, Elena & Senn, Olivier (2023). A Stimulus Set of 40 Popular Music Drum Patterns with Perceived Complexity Measures. Music & Science, 2023(6), 1-17. doi: 10.1177/20592043231202576
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Jerjen, Rafael & Senn, Olivier (2022). Applied Groove Research. IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz Research, 7.

Publications and presentations - Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

  • Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Jerjen, Raphael (2022). Wie populär sind die «besten Alben aller Zeiten»? Eine empirische Betrachtung zur Kanonbildung in der Popmusik. In Knut Holtsträter (Hrsg.), Richtig populär? Kriterien der Popularität von Musik (Vol.67, S. 61-78). Münster: Waxmann.
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Senn, Olivier (2016). Jungle Beats: Beobachtungen und Gedanken zur Musik von Irène Schweizer. In Christian Broecking (Hrsg.), Dieses unbändige Gefühl der Freiheit: Irène Schweizer - Jazz, Avantgarde, Politik (S. 385-404). Berlin: Broecking Verlag.

Publications and presentations - Other publication formats

  • Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Jerjen, Rafael (2022). Dataset Pop Canonization & Popularity.

Publications and presentations - Presentation (conference/report/lectures)

  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Kilchenmann, Lorenz & Witek, Maria (18.10.2023). A driving beat with a captivating melody on top: the relationship between groove and catchiness in polyphonic popular music. SysMus23, Sheffield.
  • Jerjen, Rafael; Hoesl, Florian; Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Senn, Olivier & Bechtold, Toni Amadeus (19.06.2023). Extending the Lucerne Groove Library. RPPW19, Nottingham.
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus (11.11.2021). Jazz-related research at HSLU. 2021 IASJ Research Conference, Leiden.
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Witek, Maria (28.07.2021). Groove and catchiness in popular music: an interview study with music experts. ICMPC-ESCOM 2021, Sheffield (virtual).
  • Senn, Oliver; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Rose, Dawn; Schmidt Câmara, Guilherme; Düvel, Nina; Jerjen, Raphael; Kilchermann, Lorenz; Hoesl, Florian; Baldassare, Antonio & Alessandri, Elena (28.07.2021). Experience of Groove Questionnaire: Instrument Development. International Conference Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC), University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Witek, Maria (22.06.2021). That’s a Different Type of Groove: How musician’s strategies change groove experiences. Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop (RPPW) 2021, Oslo (virtual).
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Senn, Olivier (07.07.2019). On the perception of rhythmic complexity by musical experts and non-experts. 2019 IMS Intercongressional Symposium, Luzern.
  • Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Jerjen, Rafael (07.07.2019). Sample Selection in Corpus-Based Research and the Canonization of Popular Music. IMS 2019: Intercongressional Symposium, Luzern.
  • Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Senn, Olivier (24.07.2018). Categorizing Western popular music drum patterns. ICMPC15-ESCOM10, Graz.
  • Bechtold, Toni Amadeus & Senn, Olivier (30.08.2017). The influence of articulation and dynamics on the perceptual attack time of saxophone tones. International Symposium on Performance Science 2017, Reykjavik.
  • Kilchenmann, Lorenz; Bechtold, Toni Amadeus; Hoesl, Florian & Senn, Olivier (30.08.2017). The Lucerne Groove Research Library: A collection of materials for groove studies. International Symposium on Performance Science 2017, Reykjavik.