Format:
1 online resource (352 pages)
,
illustrations.
Edition:
20th anniversary edition.
ISBN:
9780197506561
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Rhythm is often regarded as one of the most problematic and least understood aspects of music. Restricted to those attributes that are susceptible to calibration and measurement, rhythm is usually identified with meter, durational pattern, or durational proportion. But how shall one account for those attributes of rhythm that point to the particularity and spontaneity of aesthetic experience as it is happening? Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Henri Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, this book releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. It reinterprets oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy to form a theory that engages diverse repertories and aesthetic issues. Ultimately, this revised 20th anniversary edition of Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm facilitates the work's current contexts of application.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 27, 2020)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780190886912
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780190886912
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190886912.001.0001
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