Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 January 2015
- ISBN 9780199367283
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages326 pages
- Size 163x236x25 mm
- Weight 626 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 36 music examples; 30 plates 0
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Short description:
Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the interdependent theories of time and meter that prevailed in the fields of music and science between 1500 and 1830.
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Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the sixteenth through the early nineteenth centuries. Centered on theories of musical meter, the book investigates the interdependence between theories of meter and conceptualizations of time from the age of Zarlino to the invention of the metronome. These formulations have evolved throughout the history of Western music, reflecting fundamental reevaluations not only of music but also of time itself. Drawing on paradigms from the history of science and technology and the history of philosophy, author Roger Mathew Grant illustrates ways in which theories of meter and time, informed by one another, have manifested themselves in the field of music.
During the long eighteenth century, treatises on subjects such as aesthetics, music theory, mathematics, and natural philosophy began to reflect an understanding of time as an absolute quantity, independent of events. This gradual but conclusive change had a profound impact on the network of ideas connecting time, meter, character, and tempo. Investigating the impacts of this change, Grant explores the timekeeping techniques - musical and otherwise - that implemented this conceptual shift, both technologically and materially.
Bringing together diverse strands of thought in a broader intellectual history of temporality, Grant's study fills an unexpected yet conspicuous gap in the history of music theory, and is essential reading for music theorists and composers as well as historical musicologists and practitioners of historically informed performance.
In Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era, Grant successfully integrates a constellation of philosophical, cultural, and aesthetic issues. He shows a remarkable command of period musical discourse in Latin, Italian, French, and German; the historical inferences he draws are compelling and carefully argued; and his breadth of study is remarkable ... Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era will appeal primarily to theorists, historians, and scholars of the history of ideas, though its insights are relevant to all lovers of European music from this era.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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 Techn? of the Beat.
Re-reading 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
Meter as Attention, Activity, Aesthesis
Fetis and the Future
Appendices
Bibliography
