Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• A History of Meter Theory, Or, the Rules of the Rules
• Reading in the Dark
• Part I
• 1. Beating Time
• Themes in Meter Theory, 1500-1700
• 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 Techn? of the Beat.
• Re-reading 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
• Fetis and the Future
• Appendices
• Bibliography