| Description |
xvii, 431 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-414) and index. |
| Contents |
Thinking with and about rhythm / Christopher Hasty -- Formative processes of durational projection in "free rhythm" world music / John Roeder -- Meter and rhythm in the sung poetry of Iranian Khorasan / Stephen Blum -- An approach to musical rhythm in agbadza / David Locke -- Rhythm and the physical / Eugene Montague -- Modern drum solos over ostinatos / Fernando Benadon -- Temporal and density flow in Javanese gamelan / Sumarsam -- Layers and elasticity in the rhythm of noh songs : "Taking Komi" and its social background / Takanori Fujita -- Rhythmic metamorphoses : botanical process models on the Atlas Mountains of Morocco / Miriam Rovsing Olsen -- Mapping a rhythmic revolution through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources on rhythm and drumming in North India / James Kippen -- Time changes : heterometric rhythm in South Asia / Richard Widdess -- "Rhythm," "beat," and "freedom" in South Asian musical traditions / Richard K. Wolf -- New music -- new rhythm / Christopher Hasty. |
| Summary |
"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." Provided by publisher |
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Musical meter and rhythm.
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Musical meter and rhythm. |
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Musical meter and rhythm -- Asia.
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Asia. |
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Musical meter and rhythm -- Africa.
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Africa. |
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Aufführung. |
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Musik. |
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Rhythmus. |
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Afrika. |
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Asien. |
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Europa. |
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Nordamerika. |
| Added Author |
Wolf, Richard K., 1962- editor.
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Blum, Stephen, 1942- editor.
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Hasty, Christopher, 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190841485 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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0190841486 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9780190841492 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0190841494 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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