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"Drawing on insights from the modern ""process"" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Hasty reinterprets oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy to form a theory that engages diverse repertories and aesthetic issues. The revised 20th anniversary edition facilitates the work's current contexts of application, from new subfields in ethnomusicology and music cognition to non-music fields like literary studies, physics, and biology."

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Author:   Christopher Hasty (Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music Theory, Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music Theory, Harvard University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780190886912

ISBN 10:   0190886919
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   22 June 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"PART I METER AND RHYTHM COMPOSED ONE General Characterization of the Opposition Periodicity and the Denial of Taste Rhythmic Experience Period versus Pattern; Metrical Accent versus Rhythmic Accent TWO Two Eighteenth-Century Views THREE Evaluations of Rhythm and Meter FOUR Distinctions of Rhythm and Meter in Three Influential American Studies FIVE Discontinuity of Number and Continuity of Tonal ""Motion"" PART II A THEORY OF METER AS PROCESS SIX Preliminary Definitions: Begining, End, and Duration ""Now"" Durational Determinacy SEVEN Meter as Projection: ""Projection Defined"" Projection and Prediction EIGHT Precedents for a Theory of Projection NINE Some Traditional Questions of Meter Approached from the Perspective of Projective Process: Accent Division Hierarchy Anacrusis Pulse and Beat Metrical Types - Equal/Unequal TEN Metrical Particularity: Particularity and Reproduction Two Examples ELEVEN Obstacles to a View of Meter as Process: Meter as Habit ""Large Scale Meter as Container (Hypermeter) TWELVE The Limits of Meter: The Durational ""Extent"" of Projection The Efficacy of Meter Some Small Examples THIRTEEN Overlapping, End as Aim, Projective Types: Overlapping End as Aim Projective Types FOURTEEN Problems of Meter in Early-Seventeenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Music: Monteverdi, ""Oime, se tanto amate"" (First Phase) Shutz, ""Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem"" Webern, Quartet, op. 22 Babbitt, Du SIXTEEN The Spatialization of Time and the Eternal ""Now Moment"""

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Christopher Hasty'sMeter as Rhythmis a foundational text in contemporary music theory. Hasty's accomplishment - still unparalleled in any other existing study of meter, historical or contemporary - was to encourage a complete revision of our core beliefs concerning this musical phenomenon along the lines of process philosophy. With acute sensitivity to the history of ideas surrounding temporality and to the minutiae of music's phenomenal unfolding, Hasty's book offers a distinctive theory of meter. It is a document to which all subsequent theories of musical temporality must respond. * Roger Mathew Grant, Associate Professor of Music, Wesleyan University * As a seminal text on the theory of temporality, Christopher Hasty's Meter As Rhythm remains relevant to music scholarship today. In fact I would argue it ismore relevant today than ever. Rhythm has become one of the most important subjects of study today, in music theory, popular music, and world music alike. * Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Professor of Music, Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University * [A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music. * Choice *

[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music. * Choice *

[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music. * Choice * As a seminal text on the theory of temporality, Christopher Hasty's Meter As Rhythm remains relevant to music scholarship today. In fact I would argue it ismore relevant today than ever. Rhythm has become one of the most important subjects of study today, in music theory, popular music, and world music alike. * Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Professor of Music, Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University * Christopher Hasty'sMeter as Rhythmis a foundational text in contemporary music theory. Hasty's accomplishment - still unparalleled in any other existing study of meter, historical or contemporary - was to encourage a complete revision of our core beliefs concerning this musical phenomenon along the lines of process philosophy. With acute sensitivity to the history of ideas surrounding temporality and to the minutiae of music's phenomenal unfolding, Hasty's book offers a distinctive theory of meter. It is a document to which all subsequent theories of musical temporality must respond. * Roger Mathew Grant, Associate Professor of Music, Wesleyan University *

[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music. --Choice As a seminal text on the theory of temporality, Christopher Hasty's Meter As Rhythm remains relevant to music scholarship today. In fact I would argue it isAmore relevant today than ever. Rhythm has become one of the most important subjects of study today, in music theory, popular music, and world music alike. -- Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Professor of Music, Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm is a foundational text in contemporary music theory. Hasty's accomplishment DL still unparalleled in any other existing study of meter, historical or contemporary DL was to encourage a complete revision of our core beliefs concerning this musical phenomenon along the lines of process philosophy. With acute sensitivity to the history of ideas surrounding temporality and to the minutiae of music's phenomenal unfolding, Hasty's book offers a distinctive theory of meter. It is a document to which all subsequent theories of musical temporality must respond. -- Roger Mathew Grant, Associate Professor of Music, Wesleyan University

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Christopher Hasty's scholarly work engages problems in the theory and analysis of music from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the standpoint of process and experience. His book Meter as Rhythm (1997) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory for the Outstanding Music Theory Book of the Year. His current research interests include process philosophy, poetic prosody, and ecological and post-cognitivist psychology.

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