Modern rhythmic notation
By: Gardner Read.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Musical notation; Musical meter and rhythm
Notes: Bibliography: p. 190-191.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The rhythmic parameter : an introduction -- Traditional rhythmic notation in new guises. -- Variants of syncopation patterns -- Alternative notations -- New time-signature formats -- The notation of irrational rhythmic subdivisions. In simple time -- In compound time -- In irregular meters -- On-beat fractions -- Over barlines -- Dual irrational subdivisions -- Modern metrical concepts and their notations. Unusual meters -- Additive meters -- Mixed meters -- Fractional and decimal meters -- New rhythmic proposals -- Polymetric notation -- Implicit polymeters -- Explicit polymeters -- Afterword -- Appendixes.  A. Nonstandard time signatures -- B. Mixed meters -- C. Fractional meters -- D. Fractional beats.