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Author Houle, George, author

Title Meter in music, 1600-1800 : performance, perception, and notation / George Houle
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1987]
©1987

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages) : illustrations
Series Music--scholarship and performance
Music--scholarship and performance
Contents The origins of the measure in the seventeenth century -- Time signatures in the eighteenth century -- Rhythmopoeia: quantitative meters in poetry and music -- Quantitas Intrinseca: the perception of meter -- Articulation of quantitative meter -- Accent as measure articulation and as measure definition
Summary While the notation of 17th- and 18th-century music looks familiar, its meanings and the treatment of meter in performance have evolved dramatically. When performed according to the conventions of its own time, the music of 1600-1800 balances precision and flexibility, with an enchanting lilt, grace, and vitality. With many quotations and musical examples from theoretical treatises and instruction manuals of the period, Meter in Music is a practical guide to the performance of Baroque and early Classical music, with guidance on notes iňgales, fingerings, bowings, and woodwind tonguings
Analysis Musical meter and rhythm
Musical notation
Performance practice (Music) History 17th century
Performance practice (Music) History 18th century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Musical meter and rhythm.
Musical notation.
Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 17th century.
Performance practice (Music) -- History -- 18th century.
Musical notation
Performance practice (Music) -- 17th century
Performance practice (Music) -- 18th century
Musical meter and rhythm
Musical notation
Performance practice (Music)
Takt.
Uitvoeringspraktijk.
Metriek.
Takt.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253055514
0253055512