Music in time : phenomenology, perception, performance

Book 2016

Music exists in time. All musicians know this fundamental truth?but what does it actually mean? Thirteen scholars probe the temporality of music from a great variety of perspectives, in response to challenges that Christopher F. Hasty, Walter Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University, laid out in his groundbreaking 'Meter as Rhythm'. 00The essays included here bridge the conventional divides between theory, history, ethnomusicology, aesth...

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Musical meter and rhythm

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Harvard publications in music Harvard publications in music ; 24 Isham Library papers Isham Library papers ; 9

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ISBN:

9780964031760
0964031760

Description:

x, 341 pages : illustrations, charts, music ; 24 cm

Notes:

Festschrift for Christopher Hasty
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-338) and index

Contents:

Part I: Experiencing time. Time and time again : on hearing Reinecke / Nicholas Cook
Musical time, embodied and reflected / Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Ethnomusicologists and questions of temporality / Stephen Blum
Part II: Knowing the score. Notation is one thing, analysis another, musical experience a third : What can they have to do with one another? / Robert Morris
The modern score and its seven modes of performance / Eugene Narmour
Part III: Passage of time, holding time still. On the last measure of Schubert's String quintet / Scott Burnham
In time with Christopher Hasty : on becoming a performance of Robert Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, opus 6 / Janet Schmalfeldt
Shaping time / Jeanne Bamberger
Part IV: Finding time : the body and parsing rhythm and meter. Meter, entrainment, and voice in The King's speech / Eugene Montague
Doing the time warp in seventeenth-century music / Susan McClary
When swing doesn't swing : competing conceptions of an early twentieth-century rhythmic quality / Matthew Butterfield
Part V: "Thisness" and particularities. Off the grid : hasty and musical novelty in smooth time / Brian Hulse
Theory, as a music / Martin Brody

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2015050821

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2679120

Other Authors:

Clark, Suzannah, 1969- editor
Hasty, Christopher, 1947- honouree
Rehding, Alexander, editor

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