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Meter as Rhythm: 20th Anniversary Edition

by Christopher Hasty

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A process-centered theory of musical meter

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A process-centered theory of musical meter

Christopher Hasty frames meter not as a fixed mechanical grid but as an active part of musical experience. Drawing on process philosophy associated with Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, the book reconsiders familiar theoretical divides: rule and freedom, stable structure and unfolding process, determinacy and indeterminacy. Its approach places rhythmic organization in conversation with musical expression and is intended to engage varied repertories as well as broader aesthetic questions. This twentieth-anniversary edition also situates the work for applications extending into ethnomusicology, music cognition, literary studies, physics, and biology.

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  • Music theory students and scholars examining meter and rhythm
  • Musicians interested in philosophical approaches to musical expression
  • Interdisciplinary researchers connecting music with cognition, literature, or process thought

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Musical meterRhythm and expressionProcess philosophyStructure and indeterminacyInterdisciplinary music studies

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Book overview

Drawing on insights from the modern "process" philosophy of Bergson, William James, and A. N. Whitehead, Christopher Hasty's Meter as Rhythm releases meter from its mechanistic connotations and recognizes it as a concrete, visceral agent of musical expression. Hasty reinterprets oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy to form a theory that engages diverse repertories and aesthetic issues. The revised 20th anniversary edition facilitates the work's current contexts of application, from new subfields in ethnomusicology and music cognition to non-music fields like literary studies, physics, and biology.
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