Beating time & measuring music in the early modern era /
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| Author / Creator: | Grant, Roger Mathew, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014] |
| Description: | viii, 309 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in music theory Oxford studies in music theory. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10116450 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Orthography and Translation
- Introduction
- A History of Meter Theory, Or, the Rules of the Rules
- Reading in the Dark
- Part I.
- 1. 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
- 2. The Beat: A Technical History
- A Technical and Physical Solution
- A Problem of Continuity
- The Techne of the Beat
- Rereading Zarlino
- 3. A Renewed Account of Unequal Triple Meter
- Equality
- Inequality
- Part II.
- 4. Measuring Music
- Meter, Measure, and Motion in Eighteenth-Century Music Theory
- A Transformation in Time
- A Multiplicity of Measures
- Kirnberger's Contribution
- 5. Techniques for Keeping Time
- The Problem of Tempo
- Timekeeping Two Ways: 1. Chronometers
- Timekeeping Two Ways: 2. Taxonomies of Meter
- 6. The Eighteenth-Century Alla Breve
- A Rather Vague Indication
- Long-Note Music in the Eighteenth Century
- Long Notes in Eighteenth-Century Music
- Part III.
- 7. The Reinvention of Tempo
- A New Chronometer?
- Meter, Tempo, Number
- Length into Duration, Duration into Length: A Crisis of Measures
- Maelzel's Metronome
- 8. The Persistent Question of Meter
- The Measure as Mystery
- Fétis and the Future
- Appendix 1.
- Appendix 2.
- Bibliography
- Index
