Fernando Benadon

Swinglines

Rhythm, Timing, and Polymeter in Musical Phrasing

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Produktbeschreibung

The way rhythm is taught in Western classrooms and music lessons is rooted in a centuries-old European approach that favors metric levels within a grand symmetrical grid. Swinglines encourages readers to experience rhythms, even gridded ones, as freewheeling affairs irrespective of the metric hierarchy. It shows that rhythms traditionally framed as "deviations" and "non-isochronous" have their own identities. They are coherent products of precise musical thought and action. Rather than situating them in the neither-here-nor-there, author Fernando Benadon takes a more inclusive view, one where isochrony and metric grids are shown as particular cases within the universe of musical time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780197659977
• ISBN-10: 0197659977
• Artikelnr.: 67865475

Autorenporträt

Fernando Benadon is a composer and music theorist at American University. He has released two albums of original music (Intuitivo and delight/delirium) and has published articles on rhythm in jazz improvisation and Afro-Cuban drumming.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Swing Theory
2. Downbeat Bound
3. Voice and Beat
4. My Neighbor the Triplet
5. Traversals
6. Onset Space
7. Hybrids
8. When Polymeters Attack
9. Shifting Accents
10. Reflections
Appendix A
Appendix B
Discography
Bibliography
Index