[Smt-talk] books about time, meter and rhythm

[Eve Poudrier]

Less contemporary, but still very much current are:

Fred Lerdahl & Ray Jackendoff's Generative Theory of Tonal Music (1983)
Maury Yeston's The Stratification of Musical Rhythm (1976)

More recent, but more analytically-oriented works that include substantial theoretical discussions:

Danuta Mirka's Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791 (2009)
Harald Krebs's Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonance in the Music of 
Robert Schumann 

And if you are interested by other works that are not only on temporal structures, but devote a sizeable portion to the topic and include a psychological/cognitive perspective:

David Temperley's The Cognition of Basic Musical Structures (2001)
Ani Patel's Music, Language, and the Brain (2008)

Ève Poudrier,
Assistant Professor in Music Theory,
Yale University

--- En date de : Mar, 13.7.10, MICHAEL MORSE <mwmorse at bell.net> a écrit :

De : MICHAEL MORSE <mwmorse at bell.net>
Objet : Re: [Smt-talk] books about time, meter and rhythm
À : johannes.quint at web.de, smt-talk at societymusictheory.org
Date: mardi 13 juillet 2010 09 h 31




An interesting problem. Several monographs from the 90s and 00s have been influential, especially:
- Barry, Barbara R. 1990. Musical Time. The Sense of Order. Stuyvesant, New York: Pendragon Press.
1985. 
- Kramer, Jonathan D. 1988. The Time of Music: New Meanings, New Temporalities, New Listening Strategies. New York/London: Schirmer Books/Collier MacMillan. (see also his article "Studies of Time and Music: A Bibliography." Music Theory Spectrum 
7:72-106 1985).
- London, Justin. 2004. Hearing in Time: Psychological Aspects of Musical Meter. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Hasty, Christopher Francis. 1997. Meter as rhythm. New York: Oxford University Press.

The last-named is perhaps the most widely discussed (and perhaps most widely respected, even). But I don't think anything rises to the level of "standard work" on the problem.

Other thoughts,comrades?

Michael Morse
Trent University
Peterborough, ON

> 
> does something like a (contemporary) standard work about time, measure  
> and rhythm exist in english?
> 
> thanks for help, johannes quint
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