Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on Terminology, Language, and Musical Examples

Chapter 1. Hypermeter
1.1. Accents
1.2. Counting
1.3. Phrases and Hypermeasures
1.4. Dynamic Model of Hypermeter

Chapter 2. Phrase Structure
2.1. Caesuras and Melodic Sections Contained by Them
2.2. Length and Proportion of Melodic Sections

Chapter 3. Hypermetrical Irregularity in Basic Phrases
3.1. Irregular Phrases
3.2. Subdivisions
3.3. Long Phrases without Subdivisions

Chapter 4. Hypermetrical Irregularities in Compound Phrases
4.1. Left Elision, Right Elision, and Overlap
4.2. Right and Left Deletion
4.3. Phrase-Rhythmic Scenarios after a Cadence
4.4. Shadow Hypermeter

Chapter 5. Hypermetrical Irregularities in Expanded Phrases
5.1. Parenthesis
5.2. Repetition
5.3. Appendix

Chapter 6. Further Means of Phrase Expansion
6.1. Overridden Caesuras
6.2. Twisted Caesuras
6.3. Loops
6.4. Stretches
6.5. Written-out Rallentando

Chapter 7. Hypermeter Beyond Phrase Structure
7.1. Sequences
7.2. Fugato
7.3. Augmented Cadences

Chapter 8. Hypermeter, Phrase Structure, and Rhetorical Figures
8.1. Ellipsis
8.2. Anadiplosis

Chapter 9. Beyond Rhetoric
9.1. Haydn, String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 50 No. 3, First Movement
9.2. Haydn, String Quartet in C major, Op. 64 No. 1, First Movement
9.3. Fiddler on the Roof in Haydn's String Quartets

Bibliography
Index of Compositions by Haydn and Mozart
General Index

About the Author

Danuta Mirka is Harry N. and Ruth F. Wyatt Professor of Music Theory at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University. Her main research interests include theory and analysis of meter and rhythm and study of musical communication in the late eighteenth century. She is the co-editor, with Kofi Agawu, of Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory, which received the Citation
of Special Merit from the Society for Music Theory in 2015. Her books include The Sonoristic Structuralism of Krzysztof Penderecki and Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787-1791, which won the 2011
Wallace Berry Award of the Society for Music Theory. A former vice president of the Society for Music Analysis, her articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as The Journal of Musicology, Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Online, Eighteenth-Century Music, The American Journal of Semiotics, Semiotica, and The Musical Quarterly. Her article "The Mystery of the Cadential Six-Four" received the 2017 Roland Jackson Award from the American Musicological Society.

Reviews

What makes the book so compelling is how Mirka synthesizes four decades of music-theoretical research on rhythm and metre and deftly weaves in insights from topic theory, schema theory, historical music theory and music cognition. The result is an impressive set of new theoretical tools for eighteenth-century music that pertain not only to hypermetre but also to the analysis of melody, rhythm and small-scale forms.
*Roger Mathew Grant, Eighteenth-Century Music*

fascinating book
*W.E. Grim, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8*

In its brilliant synthesis of historical music theories, current theoretical and cognitive research, and detailed analyses, this book sets the standard for future discussions of rhythmic structure in music of the Classical style.
*Fred Lerdahl, Fritz Reiner Professor Emeritus of Musical Composition, Columbia University*

With the rigor characteristic of Metric Manipulations, Mirka now expertly weaves together historical and contemporary approaches to hypermetric manipulations, grounding rhythmic theory and eighteenth-century style and form in listener experience.
*Leigh VanHandel, Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of British Columbia*

This book represents music theory scholarship at its very best. It sets new standards for how musicians can employ sophisticated historical concepts in a comprehensive and creative fashion, as it shares exciting insights into some of the most beloved works from the Classical repertoire.
*L. Poundie Burstein, author of Journeys Through Galant Expositions*

An important milestone and essential reading for anyone interested in later eighteenth-century musical style.
*Jason Yust, Music Analysis*