How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes : An Annotated Translation by Nigel Nettheim
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| Titolo: |
How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes : An Annotated Translation by Nigel Nettheim
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| Pubblicazione: | Bern : , : Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers, , 2011 |
| ©2011 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (341 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 781/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Art - Poetry |
| Persona (resp. second.): | NettheimNigel <1940-> |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface by the Translator -- An English Translation of Becking's Book -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I Personal Constants and Typology of Attitudes -- Chapter II National Attitudes and Views of Life -- Chapter III Historical Types. Periods of German Music History from Schütz to Wagner -- Table of Beating Figures ["Becking Curves"] for Chapter III -- Appendices -- A Annotations -- B The Origin and Reception of Becking's Book -- C Some Details of the Translation -- D Some Details of the Musical Examples -- E Additional Musical Examples -- F List of Paragraph Summaries -- Indices -- Composers of Musical Examples -- Tables -- Graphs of Beating Figures -- Names and Subjects. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | What is the broadest significance of musical rhythm? Human attitudes to the world are reflected in it, according to Gustav Becking. Writing in the 1920s, Becking proposed a novel method of finding systematic differences of attitude between individual composers, between nations, and between historical time periods. He dealt throughout with Western classical music, from the period approximately 1600-1900. His method was to observe in fine detail the pattern of motion and pressure traced out by a small baton allowed to move in sympathy with a given musical excerpt. The various patterns arising for individual composers were represented graphically, and in that form became known as «Becking curves». Implications were touched upon in psychology, sociology and philosophy. His thesis is now published in English translation from the original German for the first time, with many annotations. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes |
| ISBN: | 3-0343-4691-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910727267703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Varia Musicologica Series