Meter in Music, 1600–1800 - Performance, Perception, and Notation

Here is a practical guide for the performer, with many quotations from early manuals and treatises, and abundant examples.

List of contents

Introduction

1. The Origins of the Measure in the Seventeenth Century

2. Time Signatures in the Eighteenth Century

3. Rhythmopoeia: Quantitative Meters in Poetry and Music

4. Quantitas Intrinseca: The Perception of Meter

5. Articulation of Quantitative Meter

6. Accent as Measure Articulation and as Measure Definition

Appendix: Rhythmopoeia according to Johann Mattheson and Wolfgang Caspar Printz

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

George Houle, Professor Emeritus of Music at Stanford University and former music director of the New York Pro Musica, is a performer and music historian particularly interested in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He is editor of Doulce mémoire, Le ballet des fâcheux, and Ockeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni, and co-editor of The Music for Viola Bastarda by Jason Paras (all from Indiana University Press).

Summary

A guide to the performance of Baroque and early Classical music, including discussions of notes inegales, fingerings, woodwind tonguings, and string bowings.

Product details

• Authors: George Houle, Houle George
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2000
• EAN: 9780253213914
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21391-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 228 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 296 g
• Illustrations: 5 b&w photos
• Series: Music: Scholarship and Perform; Music; Music--Scholarship and Perform; Music Scholarship and Performa
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history