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Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm (Hardcover)
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Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm (Hardcover)
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Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of
musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse
repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and
transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen
Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive tension in musical
studies between universalistic and culturally relevant approaches
to the study of rhythm. Reacting to commonplace ideas in (Western)
music pedagogy, the essays explore a range of perspectives on
rhythm: its status as an "element" of music that can be usefully
abstracted from timbre, tone, and harmony; its connotations of
regularity (or, by contrast, that rhythm is what we hear against
the grain of background regularity); and its special embodiment in
percussion parts. Unique among studies of musical rhythm, the
collection directs close attention to ways performers and listeners
conceptualize aspects of rhythm and questions many received
categories for describing rhythm. By drawing the ear and the mind
to tensions, distinctions, and aesthetic principles that might
otherwise be overlooked, this focus on local concepts enables the
listener to dispel assumptions about how music works "in general."
Readers may walk away with a few surprises, become more aware of
their assumptions, and/or think of new ways to shock their students
out of complacency.
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