Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Meter as a kind of attentional behaviour; 2. Research on temporal perception and its relevance for theories of musical meter; 3. Meter-rhythm interactions I: Ground Rules; 4. Metric representations and metric well-formedness; 5. Meter-rhythm interactions II: Problems; 6. Metric flux in Beethoven's Fifth; 7. Non-isochronous meters; 8. NI meters in theory and practice; 9. The many-meters hypothesis; Conclusion; References; Index

Reviews

"London is able to formulate interesting hypotheses about a broad scope of phenomena from the performer's choice of tempo for a given piece to the affect or character of rhythmic figures performed in different tempos...London's study also goes beyond traditional theories of meter in that it embraces both Western and non-Western musical idioms."--Journal of Music Theory