Meter As Rhythm
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 1997
329 pages
978-0-19-535653-3 (ISBN)
Description
In this book Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which meter is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Part one of the book reviews oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy in the speculations of theorists from the eighteenth century to the present. Part two reinterprets these contrasts to form a highly original account of meter that engages diverse musical repertories and aesthetic issues.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- PART I: METER AND RHYTHM OPPOSED
- ONE: General Characterization of the Opposition
- Periodicity and the Denial of Tense
- 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
- Beginning, 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, "Oimé, se tanto amate" (First Phase)
- Schütz, "Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem"
- Webern, Quartet, op. 22
- Babbitt, Du
- 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
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