| Description |
1 online resource (343 p.) |
| Contents |
Measure: In Pursuit of Musical Time -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Part 1. Hands -- Hand and Heart -- Motion and Rest -- Part 2. Pendulums -- A Logically Ordered Universe -- A Line, a Weight and a Nail -- Court and Académie -- New Systems -- Curiosities and Chronometers -- Revolutionary Minds -- Clockwork -- Hammers, Dials and Barrels -- Part 3. Metronomes -- Winkel's Prototype -- Maelzel's Metronome -- Composers' Calibrations -- An Incomparable Lack of Judgement -- New Currents -- Metronome Sense -- Afterword: Object of Destruction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
Follows the fascinating story of musical timekeeping, beginning in an age before the existence of external measuring devices and continuing to the present-day use of the Smartphone app |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Musical meter and rhythm -- History
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Metronome -- History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781800104136 |
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1800104138 |
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