Beating time & measuring music in the early modern era
By: Roger Mathew Grant
Series: Oxford studies in music theory; Oxford studies in music theory
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780199367283
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Tempo (Music); Musical meter and rhythm; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction ; A history of meter theory, or, The rules of the rules ; Reading in the dark; title: Beating time. Themes in meter theory, 1500-1700 ; The theoretical work of the beat ; The organizing principle of meter theory : four approaches ; "Honor them all" : on the use (and misuse?) of meter theory; title: The beat : a technical history. A technical and physical solution ; A problem of continuity ; The technē of the beat ; Re-reading Zarlino; title: A renewed account of unequal triple meter. Equality ; Inequality; title: Measuring music. Meter, measure, and motion in eighteenth-century music theory ; A transformation in time ; A multiplicity of measures ; Kirnberger's contribution; title: Techniques for keeping time. The problem of tempo ; Timekeeping two ways: 1. Chronometers ; Timekeeping two ways: 2. Taxonomies of meter; title: Eighteenth-century alla breve. A rather vague indication ; Long-note music in the eighteenth century ; Long notes in eighteenth-century music; title: The reinvention of tempo. A new chronometer? ; Meter, tempo, number ; Length into duration, duration into length : a crisis of measures ; Maelzel's metronome; title: The persistent question of meter. The measure as mystery ; Meter as attention, activity, aesthesis ; Fétis and the future; title: Appendix 1. Representative writings on the beat from Gaffurius to Nassarre; title: Appendix 2. Inventories of meter from Bononcini to Momigny.