Dr Bill Harned discusses the Haitian Méringue by analyzing recently published stylized pieces for the piano from the SRDMH archive in Montreal. It also explains the performance practice of unique rhythmic notations from Haiti and Puerto Rico.
The many figures of musical excerpts throughout show examples of these constructs. The interview with the S.R.D.M.H. archive founder and musicologist, Claude Dauphin, at p. 130 provides a wide range of information concerning the Haitian musical style. In 2014 Dauphin published Histoire du style musical d’ Haïti, which is considered as the most extensive work on Haitian music.
I will be discussing how these rhythms preserve cross-rhythms between duple and triple meters in the online version of the World Piano Conference based out of Serbia in October 2022. In a shorter presentation at the MTNA National Conference in Reno in March 2023, I will only discuss the performance practice of these innovative rhythmic notations.