Hearing in time : psychological aspects of musical meter /

'Hearing in Time' explores musical meter from the point of view of cognitive theories of perception & attention - how our ability to follow musical order is simply a specific instance of our more general ability to synchronize our attention to regularly occuring events in our environme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	London, Justin
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Musical meter and rhythm. Musical perception. Musique > Mesure et rythme. Perception de la musique. MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory. Musical meter and rhythm Musical perception Metrik > Musik Musikwahrnehmung Auditieve waarneming. Ritme. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Meter as a kind of attentional behavior
Research on temporal perception and its relevance for theories of musical meter
Meter-rhythm interactions I : ground rules
Metric representations and metric well-formedness
Meter-rhythm interactions II : problems
Metric flux in Beethoven's Fifth
Non-isochronous meters
NI meters in theory and practice
The many meters hypothesis.