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| Title: | What is musical meter? |
| Authors: | Johansson, Mats |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | This article discusses the concept of musical meter, its most common definitions
and their implications for musical analysis. It is shown that the
concept has been notoriously difficult to define and that the core of the
problem is the fluid relationship between sounding musical events and the
framework (meter?) by which these events are structured. To illustrate how
this problem relates to music perception and performance, four different,
more or less overlapping, perspectives on meter are discussed: 1) Meter as
a measuring device, specifying the temporal relationships between rhythmic
units and levels (beats per measure etc.). 2) Meter as an imposed or inferred
accentuation pattern (strong-weak-weak etc.). 3) Meter as an
emerging property of the listener’s engagement with the unfolding music,
implying that there is no pre-existing neutral grid in relation to which musical
sounds are rhythmically structured. 4) A formulaic conception of
meter: a stylistically coded (i.e. culture-specific) notion of sameness resulting
from a continuously ongoing process of trying out different, but metrically
equivalent, rhythmic designs. |
| Keywords: | musikk
takt
rytme |
| Publisher: | Novus |
| Document type: | Journal article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2282/1110 |
| ISBN: | 978-82-7099-615-5 |
| Appears in Collections: | Institutt for folkekultur
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