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- The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Overview of Rhythm
- Part II Performing Rhythm
- Part III Composing with Rhythm
- 7 Expressive Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied
- 8 Rhythm in Post-tonal Music
- 9 The Concept of Rhythm
- Part IV Rhythm in Jazz and Popular Music
- Part V Rhythm in Global Musics
- Part VI Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
8 - Rhythm in Post-tonal Music
A Modernist Primer
from Part III - Composing with Rhythm
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
- Cambridge Companions to Music
- The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Overview of Rhythm
- Part II Performing Rhythm
- Part III Composing with Rhythm
- 7 Expressive Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied
- 8 Rhythm in Post-tonal Music
- 9 The Concept of Rhythm
- Part IV Rhythm in Jazz and Popular Music
- Part V Rhythm in Global Musics
- Part VI Epilogue
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Composers coming of age in the early twentieth century inherited from the Western European art tradition at least two ways to articulate temporality, both dependent on the highly organized language of tonality and a vocabulary of proportionally related durations (whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, etc.). This musical time evokes an ordered, continuous flow – a sense of moving forward toward a goal, one where complexity arises from possible diversions in an ongoing flow and a pattern of metric accent. The temporal identities are determined by their placement within a phrase and within a hierarchical, fundamentally periodic series of beats, measures, and hypermeasures; for example, a chord may occur on a beat within a measure and (often) a hypermeasure, and also at the beginning, middle, or end of a phrase.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm , pp. 119 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020