Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era Grant Roger Mathew Assistant Professor of Music Wesleyan UniversityPaperback
Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era Grant Roger Mathew Assistant Professor of Music Wesleyan UniversityPaperback Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era chronicles…
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Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era Grant Roger Mathew Assistant Professor of Music Wesleyan UniversityPaperback
Beating Time & 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. These formulations have evolved throughout the history of Western music, reflecting fundamental reevaluations not only of music but also of time itself. 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.
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