Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era

Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
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Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780199367283
ISBN-13 : 0199367280
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Synopsis Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era by : Roger Mathew Grant

Beating Time & 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.

Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era

Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9780199367290
ISBN-13 : 0199367299
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Synopsis Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era by : Roger Mathew Grant

Beating Time & 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.

Tactus , Mensuration and Rhythm in Renaissance Music

Tactus , Mensuration and Rhythm in Renaissance Music
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 517
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ISBN-10 : 9781107064720
ISBN-13 : 1107064724
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Synopsis Tactus , Mensuration and Rhythm in Renaissance Music by : Ruth I. DeFord

Ruth I. DeFord offers new insights on Renaissance theories of rhythm and their application to the analysis and performance of music.

Making Musical Time

Making Musical Time
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9783030856298
ISBN-13 : 3030856291
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Musical Time by : Guerino Mazzola

This book is a comprehensive examination of the conception, perception, performance, and composition of time in music across time and culture. It surveys the literature of time in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, music theory, and somatic studies (medicine and disability studies) and looks ahead through original research in performance, composition, psychology, and education. It is the first monograph solely devoted to the theory of construction of musical time since Kramer in 1988, with new insights, mathematical precision, and an expansive global and historical context. The mathematical methods applied for the construction of musical time are totally new. They relate to category theory (projective limits) and the mathematical theory of gestures. These methods and results extend the music theory of time but also apply to the applied performative understanding of making music. In addition, it is the very first approach to a constructive theory of time, deduced from the recent theory of musical gestures and their categories. Making Musical Time is intended for a wide audience of scholars with interest in music. These include mathematicians, music theorists, (ethno)musicologists, music psychologists / educators / therapists, music performers, philosophers of music, audiologists, and acousticians.

Peculiar Attunements

Peculiar Attunements
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Publisher : Fordham University Press
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9780823288076
ISBN-13 : 0823288072
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Synopsis Peculiar Attunements by : Roger Mathew Grant

Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement in European music theory of the eighteenth century. During that time the affects—or passions, as they were also called—formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for such theories, since it wasn’t apparent that musical tones could imitate anything with any dependability, beyond the rare thunderclap or birdcall. Struggling to articulate how it was that music managed to move its auditors without imitation, certain theorists developed a new affect theory crafted especially for music, postulating that music’s physical materiality as sound vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects through sympathetic resonance. This was a theory of affective attunement that bypassed the entire structure of representation, offering a non-discursive, corporeal alternative. It is a pendant to contemporary theories of affect, and one from which they have much to learn. Inflecting our current intellectual moment through eighteenth-century music theory and aesthetics, this book offers a reassessment of affect theory’s common systems and processes. It offers a new way of thinking through affect dialectically, drawing attention to patterns and problems in affect theory that we have been given to repeating. Finally, taking a cue from eighteenth-century theory, it gives renewed attention to the objects that generate affects in subjects.

The Musical Examiner

The Musical Examiner
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Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:590708155
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

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The Musical Times

The Musical Times
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Total Pages : 672
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951001906453B
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Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 840
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822025692609
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Dictionary of Music and Musicians by : Sir George Grove

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians : (A.D. 1450-1889)

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians : (A.D. 1450-1889)
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Publisher : Philadelphia : T. Presser
Total Pages : 842
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112014372848
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Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis A Dictionary of Music and Musicians : (A.D. 1450-1889) by : J. A. (John Alexander) Fuller-Maitland