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Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era (Hardcover)
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Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Music Theory
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Beating Time and 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.
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