Meter in Music, 1600-1800

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. The Origins of the Measure in the Seventeenth Century
• 2. Time Signatures in the Eighteenth Century
• 3. Rhythmopoeia: Quantitative Meters in Poetry and Music
• 4. Quantitas Intrinseca: The Perception of Meter
• 5. Articulation of Quantitative Meter
• 6. Accent as Measure Articulation and as Measure Definition
• Appendix: Rhythmopoeia according to Johann Mattheson and Wolfgang Caspar Printz
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index