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Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- A History of Meter Theory, Or, the Rules of the Rules
- Reading in the Dark
- Part I
- 1. Beating Time
- Themes in Meter Theory, 1500-1700
- The Theoretical Work of the Beat
- The Organizing Principle of Meter Theory: Four Approaches
- Honor Them All : On the Use (and Misuse?) of Meter Theory
- 2. The Beat: A Technical History
- A Technical and Physical Solution
- A Problem of Continuity
- The Techn? of the Beat.
- Re-reading Zarlino
- 3. A Renewed Account of Unequal Triple Meter
- Equality
- Inequality
- Part II
- 4. Measuring Music
- Meter, Measure, and Motion in Eighteenth-Century Music Theory
- A Transformation in Time
- A Multiplicity of Measures
- Kirnberger's Contribution
- 5. Techniques for Keeping Time
- The Problem of Tempo
- Timekeeping Two Ways: 1. Chronometers
- Timekeeping Two Ways: 2. Taxonomies of Meter
- 6. The Eighteenth-Century Alla Breve
- A Rather Vague Indication
- Long-Note Music in the Eighteenth Century
- Long Notes in Eighteenth-Century Music
- Part III
- 7. The Reinvention of Tempo
- A New Chronometer?
- Meter, Tempo, Number
- Length Into Duration, Duration Into Length: A Crisis of Measures
- Maelzel's Metronome
- 8. The Persistent Question of Meter
- The Measure as Mystery
- Meter as Attention, Activity, Aesthesis
- Fetis and the Future
- Appendices
- Bibliography