Meter in Music, 1600-1800 : Performance, Perception, and Notation / / George Houle.

• Author: Houle, George.
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1987.; ©1987.
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Series: Music--scholarship and performance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 174 pages) :; illustrations).

While the notation of 17th- and 18th-century music looks familiar, its meanings and the treatment of meter in performance have evolved dramatically. When performed according to the conventions of its own time, the music of 1600-1800 balances precision and flexibility, with an enchanting lilt, grace, and vitality. With many quotations and musical examples from theoretical treatises and instruction manuals of the period, Meter in Music is a practical guide to the performance of Baroque and early Classical music, with guidance on notes iňgales, fingerings, bowings, and woodwind tonguings.

Table of Contents

The origins of the measure in the seventeenth century -- Time signatures in the eighteenth century -- Rhythmopoeia: quantitative meters in poetry and music -- Quantitas Intrinseca: the perception of meter -- Articulation of quantitative meter -- Accent as measure articulation and as measure definition.