Table of Contents

Table of Contents ; Introduction ; Meter as a Kind of Attentional Behavior ; Relevant research on Rhythmic Perception and Production ; The Neurobiology and Development of Rhythm ; Meter-Rhythm Interactions I: Ground Rules ; Metric Representations and Metric Well-Formedness ; Meter-Rhythm Interactions II: Problems ; Metric Flux in Beethoven's Fifth ; Non-Isochronous Meters ; NI-Meters in Theory and Practice ; The Many Meters Hypothesis ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

About the Author

Justin London is Professor of Music at Carleton College. He is the author of Hearing in Time (OUP 2004) as well as several articles in the recent revision of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. He served as President of the Society for Music Theory in 2007-2009.

Reviews

London's book clearly provides the single best introduction to, and summary of, a century of psychological and theoretical study into the nature of musical meter and rhythm. For both music scholars and performers, this text offers an unbiased, reliable, and wide-ranging discussion of these important concepts. * Robert Gjerdingen, Music Theory Program, Northwestern University School of Music *