A Theory of Meter
Author : Seymour Chatman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111352269
Meter in Poetry
Author : Nigel Fabb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 23,37 MB
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1139474677
Book Description
Many of the great works of world literature are composed in metrical verse, that is, in lines which are measured and patterned. Meter in Poetry: A New Theory is the first book to present a single simple account of all known types of metrical verse, which is illustrated with detailed analyses of poems in many languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, French, classical Greek and Latin, Sanskrit, classical Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Latvian. This outstanding contribution to the study of meter is aimed both at students and scholars of literature and languages, as well as anyone interested in knowing how metrical verse is made.
Focal Impulse Theory
Author : John Paul Ito
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253049946
Book Description
Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing "focal impulse theory," Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes. As Focal Impulse Theory deftly illustrates, bodily movements carry musical meaning and, in a very real sense, are meaning.
Meter and Meaning
Author : Thomas Carper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780415311748
Book Description
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Meter As Rhythm
Author : Christopher Hasty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1997-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195356535
Book Description
In this book 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 of musical 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 that engages diverse musical repertories and aesthetic issues.
A New Theory of Old English Meter
Author : David L. Hoover
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Beowulf
ISBN :
Book Description
A New Theory of Old English Meter sets out a simple new theory of Old English meter that is based on a bare minimum of initial assumptions and metrical principles, and supported by rigorous arguments and by evidence from a computer-assisted analysis of Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon. The new theory is revolutionary in concluding that alliteration rather than stress is the most important feature of the meter, and in rejecting the traditional assumptions of two lifts and four metrical positions per verse. It provides improved solutions for many of the perennial problems of Old English meter, makes possible an elegant logical explanation for the kinds of verses that occur and those which do not occur, and prepares the way for the most radical conclusion of the book: that Old English meter is not based on rhythm.
Songs in Motion
Author : Yonatan Malin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195340051
Book Description
This is an exploratopn of rhythm and meter in the 19th-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. The Lied, as a genre, is characterised especially by the fusion of poetry and music.
Hearing in Time
Author : Justin London
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199744378
Book Description
When we hear music we don't just listen; we move along with it. Hearing in Time explores our innate propensity for rhythmic synchronization, drawing on research in music psychology, neurobiology, music theory, and mathematics. It looks at music from a wide range of musical styles and cultures.
The Ghost of Meter
Author : Annie Finch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472087099
Book Description
A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, the poetic unconscious, and wider literary and cultural forces
Meter in English
Author : David Baker
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781557284228
Book Description
Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass has called Wallace's essay a paradigm shift in our understanding of English prosody.
