
This book is a comprehensive examination of the conception, perception, performance, and composition of time in music across time and culture. It surveys the literature of time in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, music theory, and somatic studies (medicine and disability...

Part I Ontological Orientation.- 1. Ontology, Oniontology, and the (History and Present Stage.- 5. Genealogy and Ontology of Human Time Perception.- Part III Musical Time Concepts.- 6. Meters and Rhythm.- 7. Structures of Organized Time.- 8. Musical Gestures.- 9. Kramer's...