Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm

著者名：Wolf, Richard (EDT)/Blum, Stephen (EDT)/Hasty, Christopher (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2019/10/11発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190841485
• eISBN：9780190841515

Description

Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm offers new understandings of musical rhythm through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires, performance practices, and theories as formulated and transmitted in speech or writing. Editors Richard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, and Christopher Hasty address a productive tension in musical studies between universalistic and culturally relevant approaches to the study of rhythm. Reacting to commonplace ideas in (Western) music pedagogy, the essays explore a range of perspectives on rhythm: its status as an "element" of music that can be usefully abstracted from timbre, tone, and harmony; its connotations of regularity (or, by contrast, that rhythm is what we hear against the grain of background regularity); and its special embodiment in percussion parts. Unique among studies of musical rhythm, the collection directs close attention to ways performers and listeners conceptualize aspects of rhythm and questions many received categories for describing rhythm. By drawing the ear and the mind to tensions, distinctions, and aesthetic principles that might otherwise be overlooked, this focus on local concepts enables the listener to dispel assumptions about how music works "in general." Readers may walk away with a few surprises, become more aware of their assumptions, and/or think of new ways to shock their students out of complacency.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and TablesPrefaceAbout the Companion WebsiteIntroductionRichard K. Wolf, Stephen Blum, Christopher Hasty1. Thinking With and About RhythmChristopher Hasty2. Formative Processes of Durational Projection in "Free Rhythm" World MusicJohn Roeder3. Meter and Rhythm in the Sung Poetry of Iranian KhorasanStephen Blum4. An Approach to Musical Rhythm in AgbadzaDavid Locke5. Rhythm and the PhysicalEugene Montague6. Modern Drum Solos Over OstinatosFernando Benadon7. Temporal and Density Flow in JavaneseGamelan Sumarsam8. Layers and Elasticity in the Rhythm of Noh Songs: "Taking Komi" and its Social BackgroundTakanori Fujita9. Rhythmic Metamorphoses: Botanical Process Models on the Atlas Mountains of MoroccoMiriam Rovsing Olsen10. Mapping a Rhythmic Revolution Through Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Sources on Rhythm and Drumming in North IndiaJames Kippen11. Time Changes: Heterometric Rhythm in South AsiaRichard Widdess12. "Rhythm," "Beat," and "Freedom," in South Asian Musical TraditionsRichard K. Wolf13. New Music - New RhythmChristopher HastyBibliographyGlossaryIndex