Meter in Music, 1600-1800 : Performance, Perception, and Notation / / George Houle.
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,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1987. ©1987. |
Year of Publication: | 1987 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Music--scholarship and performance
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 174 pages) :; illustrations). |
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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.