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Music and Rhythm; Fundamentals - History - Analysis

Music and Rhythm; Fundamentals - History - Analysis

Petersen, Peter

Paperback

Music Theory

ISBN10: 3631643934
ISBN13: 9783631643938
Publisher: Peter Lang D
Published: Sep 12 2013
Pages: 312
Weight: 2.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.50 Depth: 13.70
Language: English
This book sets forth the first really novel theory of rhythm since Hugo Riemann: the components theory. Its approach will be of interest to musicologists and music theoreticians alike as well as to music performers, since it will enable them to describe and understand the rhythmic shape of music better and more fully than was previously possible. Instead of conceiving rhythm simply as interplay of short and long, of accents and meters, the present analysis takes its departure from secondary rhythms that are not notated but depend on specific qualities of a given sound or sound formation. Together with the basic rhythms, these components rhythms form a total rhythmic texture, whose temporal and weight structure allows a novel way of perceiving musical meter as not being primarily prescriptive but above all as the product of an overall compositional calculation of component rhythms.

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