{"title":"Meter","authors":"Richard Cohn","doi":"10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e802430","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents a sketch of an analytical model of musical meter, focused on sound rather than notation. A meter is defined as a set of pulses, and classified as an ordered set of adjacent pulse pairs, or minimal meters. The model encourages a view of meter as ever-changing and form-shaping. Metric change is defined as pulse substitution. Scripts of metric change are illustrated through analyses of brief passages of Schumann, Glass, and Ghanian dance-drumming. Hypermeter and quasi-meter (that is, non-isochronous or additive meter) are conceived as complementary ways to generalize meter.","PeriodicalId":177099,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e802430","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This chapter presents a sketch of an analytical model of musical meter, focused on sound rather than notation. A meter is defined as a set of pulses, and classified as an ordered set of adjacent pulse pairs, or minimal meters. The model encourages a view of meter as ever-changing and form-shaping. Metric change is defined as pulse substitution. Scripts of metric change are illustrated through analyses of brief passages of Schumann, Glass, and Ghanian dance-drumming. Hypermeter and quasi-meter (that is, non-isochronous or additive meter) are conceived as complementary ways to generalize meter.