Meter as Rhythm
20th Anniversary Edition
- Author: Hasty, Christopher F.
[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music
Meter as Rhythm
20th Anniversary Edition
- Author: Hasty, Christopher F.
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[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music
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Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Hasty reinterprets oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy to form a theory that engages diverse repertories and aesthetic issues. The revised 20th anniversary edition facilitates the work's current contexts of application, from new subfields in ethnomusicology and music cognition to non-music fields like literary studies, physics, and biology.
Contents
- PART I
- METER AND RHYTHM COMPOSED
- ONE
- General Characterization of the Opposition
- Periodicity and the Denial of Taste
- Rhythmic Experience
- Period versus Pattern
- Metrical Accent versus Rhythmic Accent
- TWO
- Two Eighteenth-Century Views
- THREE
- Evaluations of Rhythm and Meter
- FOUR
- Distinctions of Rhythm and Meter in Three Influential American Studies
- FIVE
- Discontinuity of Number and Continuity of Tonal Motion
- PART II
- A THEORY OF METER AS PROCESS
- SIX
- Preliminary Definitions:
- Begining, End, and Duration
- Now
- Durational Determinacy
- SEVEN
- Meter as Projection:
- Projection Defined
- Projection and Prediction
- EIGHT
- Precedents for a Theory of Projection
- NINE
- Some Traditional Questions of Meter Approached from the Perspective of Projective Process:
- Accent
- Division
- Hierarchy
- Anacrusis
- Pulse and Beat
- Metrical Types - Equal/Unequal
- TEN
- Metrical Particularity:
- Particularity and Reproduction
- Two Examples
- ELEVEN
- Obstacles to a View of Meter as Process:
- Meter as Habit
- Large Scale Meter as Container (Hypermeter)
- TWELVE
- The Limits of Meter:
- The Durational Extent of Projection
- The Efficacy of Meter
- Some Small Examples
- THIRTEEN
- Overlapping, End as Aim, Projective Types:
- Overlapping
- End as Aim
- Projective Types
- FOURTEEN
- Problems of Meter in Early-Seventeenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Music:
- Monteverdi, Oime, se tanto amate (First Phase)
- Shutz, Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem
- Webern, Quartet, op. 22
- Babbitt, Du
- SIXTEEN
- The Spatialization of Time and the Eternal Now Moment
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