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Beating time and measuring music in the early modern era / Roger Mathew Grant.

By: Grant, Roger Mathew [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in music theoryPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190858469 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Musical meter and rhythm -- History | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.2'2'09 Summary: This volume chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the 16th through the early 19th centuries. Centred on theories of musical meter, it investigates the interdependence between theories of meter and conceptualisations of time from the age of Zarlino to the invention of the metronome.
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Originally published: 2014.

This volume chronicles the shifting relationships between ideas about time in music and science from the 16th through the early 19th centuries. Centred on theories of musical meter, it investigates the interdependence between theories of meter and conceptualisations of time from the age of Zarlino to the invention of the metronome.

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