Meter as Rhythm by Christopher Hasty, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

In Meter as Rhythm, Christopher Hasty presents a striking new theory of musical duration. Drawing on insights from modern "process" philosophy, he advances a fully temporal perspective in which meter is released from its mechanistic connotations and recognized as a concrete, visceral agent ofmusical expression. Part One of the book reviews oppositions of law and freedom, structure and process, determinacy and indeterminacy in the speculations of theorists from the eighteenth century to the present. Part Two reinterprets these contrasts to form a highly original account of meter thatengages diverse musical repertories and aesthetic issues. The 20th anniversary edition brings the work up to date with a new introduction, and discusses current contexts of its application, from its relevancy and importance to new subfields in ethnomusicology and music cognition to its beingreferenced in non-music fields from literary studies and poetics to physics and biology. | Meter as Rhythm by Christopher Hasty, Paperback | Indigo Chapters