Beating time measuring music in the early modern era 1st Edition by Roger Mathew Grant ISBN 0199367280 978-0199367283

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ISBN 10:  0199367280 

ISBN 13: 978-0199367283

Author: Roger Mathew Grant  

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. 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. These formulations have evolved throughout the history of Western music, reflecting fundamental reevaluations not only of music but also of time itself. 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 theory, mathematics, and natural philosophy began to reflect an understanding of time as an absolute quantity, independent of events. This gradual but conclusive change had a profound impact on the network of ideas connecting time, meter, character, and tempo. Investigating the impacts of this change, Grant explores the timekeeping techniques – musical and otherwise – that implemented this conceptual shift, both technologically and materially.

Bringing together diverse strands of thought in a broader intellectual history of temporality, Grant’s study fills an unexpected yet conspicuous gap in the history of music theory, and is essential reading for music theorists and composers as well as historical musicologists and practitioners of historically informed performance.

Table of contents: 

Part I

1. Beating Time

Themes in Meter Theory

The Theoretical Work of the Beat

The Organizing Principle of Meter Theory: Four Approaches

“Honor Them All”: On the Use (and Misuse?) of Meter Theory

2. The Beat: A Technical History

A Technical and Physical Solution

A Problem of Continuity

The Techne of the Beat

Rereading Zarlino

3. A Renewed Account of Unequal Triple Meter

Equality

Inequality

Part II

4. Measuring Music

Meter, Measure, and Motion in Eighteenth-Century

Music Theory

A Transformation in Time

A Multiplicity of Measures

Kirnberger’s Contribution

5. Techniques for Keeping Time The Problem of Tempo

Timekeeping Two Ways: 1. Chronometers

Timekeeping Two Ways: 2. Taxonomies of Meter

6. The Eighteenth-Century Alla Breve A Rather Vague Indication Long-Note Music in the Eighteenth Century Long Notes in Eighteenth-Century Music

Part III

7. The Reinvention of Tempo A New Chronometer? Meter, Tempo, Number Length into Duration, Duration into Length: A Crisis of Measures

Maelzel’s Metronome

8. The Persistent Question of Meter The Measure as Mystery Meter as Attention, Activity, Aesthesis Fétis and the Future

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