Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception, and NotationWhile 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 inegales, fingerings, bowings, and woodwind tonguings. |
Contents
The Origins of the Measure in the Seventeenth | 1 |
Time Signatures in the Eighteenth Century | 35 |
Quantitative Meters in Poetry | 62 |
The Perception of Meter | 78 |
Accent as Measure Articulation and as Measure | 124 |
Rhythmopoeia According | 135 |
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accent adagio allegro articulation autres battuta beat Bononcini breve composers composition Corrette croches deux temps discussed down-bow downbeat downstroke duple meters duration eighteenth century eighth notes Engramelle Engramelle's equal equivalent erste examples Facs fast faster fingerings French Georg Muffat Grassineau half note Ibid indicated Italian Johann Johann Mattheson keyboard Kirnberger l'on Leipzig Leopold Mozart London Loulié Marin Mersenne Mattheson mensural notation mensural signs Menuet Mersenne meter signs Méthode metrical Michael Praetorius minims Montéclair movement musicians musique noire note values Noten notes inégales Paris performance pieces played practice Praetorius première presto pulses quantitas intrinseca Quantz quarter notes quatre Rameau rhythm rhythmopoeia Rousseau ru tu ru Saint Lambert semibreve semiminims sesquialtera seventeenth century signatures silence sixteenth slow slower slurred speed stroke style syllables Tact tactée tactus Tans'ur technique tempo tempo words Theil theorists tion tonguings tonotechnie Traité trans treatise triple meter up-bow upstroke Valentini Versuch violin
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References to this book
Rhythm: Contrasting the Implications of Audiation and Notation Edwin Gordon No preview available - 2000 |