Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era

ISBN-13: 9780190858469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str.

Roger Mathew Grant

Recenzje

As a book that chronicles the development of meter theory, Beating Time is extremely well researched...Amid the growing multitude of rhythmic theories in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Grant's retrospective provides much-needed historical context. Through his thoughtful and thorough exploration of older treatises, theories, practices, and technologies, he puts us in a position to better understand our own inclinations in regards to musical meter, and provides an informed vantage point from which to critique many concepts we take for granted. He shows us not only how these theories developed, but also how musical meter itself changed in the early modern era, and for that, this book is a valuable addition to any musician's library.

O autorze

Roger Mathew Grant is Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. A recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (PhD 2010) his research focuses on the relationships between eighteenth-century music theory, Enlightenment aesthetics, and early modern science. His journal articles have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Journal of Music Theory. A former Junior Fellow of the University of Michigan's Society of Fellows, he was the fourth musicologist ever to hold a fellowship in the forty-year history of the Society.