Modern Rhythmic Notation

by Gardner Read

Twentieth-century music has significantly advanced the role of rhythm. The many variants of rhythmic notation, standard and experimental alike, encountered in contemporary music frequently demand explanation and interpretation. This book catalogs and clarifies the numerous ways of notating syncopation and alternative standard rhythmic figures, new time signatures, irrational rhythmic groupings within regular and irregular meters, experimental metrical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253338670
• ISBN13: 9780253338679
• Release Date: November 1978
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"