Meter as rhythm / Christopher F. Hasty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hasty, Christopher, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical meter and rhythm.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work presents a theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern ""process"" philosophy, it advances a fully temporal perspective in which metre is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression.

Contents:

Contents; ONE: General Characterization of the Opposition; 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"; SIX: Preliminary Definitions; SEVEN: Meter as Projection; EIGHT: Precedents for a Theory of Projection; NINE: Some Traditional Questions of Meter Approached from the Perspective of Projective Process; TEN: Metrical Particularity; ELEVEN: Obstacles to a View of Meter as Process; TWELVE: The Limits of Meter

THIRTEEN: Overlapping, End as Aim, Projective TypesFOURTEEN: Problems of Meter in Early-Seventeenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Music; FIFTEEN: Toward a Music of Durational Indeterminacy; SIXTEEN: The Spatialization of Time and the Eternal "Now Moment"; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-307) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-028278-9

1-280-52837-0

0-19-535653-5

1-4294-1447-2

OCLC:

476010072