Hearing in Time Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter
Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2004
206 pages
978-0-19-803645-6 (ISBN)
Description
Our sense that a waltz is ",in three", or a blues song is ",in four with a shuffle", comes from our sense of musical meter. Hearing in Time explores musical meter from the point of view of cognitive theories of perception and attention - how our ability to follow musical meter is simply a specific instance of our more general ability to synchronize our attention to regularly recurring events in our environment. As such, musical meter is subject to a number of fundamental perceptual and cognitive constraints, which form the cornerstones of London's account. He uses familiar examples from a broad range of music that allow him to explore a number of fundamental similarities between a variety of different metric phenomena, such as the difference between so-called simple versus complex or additive meters. Because of its accessible style - only a modest ability to read a musical score is presumed - Hearing in Time is for anyone interested in rhythm and meter, including cognitive psychologists, musicologists, musicians and music theorists.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Meter as a Kind of Attentional Behavior
- 2. Research on Temporal Perception and its Relevance for Theories of Musical Meter
- 3. Meter-Rhythm Interactions I: Ground Rules
- 4. Metric Representations and Metric Well-Formedness
- 5. Meter-Rhythm Interactions II: Problems
- 6. Metric Flux in Beethoven's Fifth
- 7. Non-Isochronous Meters
- 8. NI-Meters in Theory and Practice
- 9. The Many Meters Hypothesis
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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