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Contents
- Introduction
- Note on Terminology, Language, and Musical Examples
- Chapter 1. Musical Meter between Composition and Perception
- 1.1. The Concept of Meter in the Late Eighteenth Century
- 1.2. Revival of the Hierarchical Concept of Meter in the Twentieth Century
- 1.3. Toward a Dynamic Model of Meter
- 1.4. Borrowing from a Different Model
- Chapter 2. Finding Meter
- 2.1. Statistical Parameters
- 2.2. Harmony
- 2.3. Streaming and the Role of Bass
- 2.4. Cadence (Structural Accent)
- Chapter 3. Sustaining Meter -- Challenging Meter
- 3.1. Metrum and Regularity of Beats
- 3.2. Missing Beats
- 3.3. General Pauses
- 3.4. Fermatas
- 3.5. Syncopations
- Chapter 4. Changing Meter I: Change of Period
- 4.1. Imbroglio
- 4.2. Submetrical Dissonance
- 4.3. Hemiola
- Chapter 5. Changing Meter II: Change of Phase
- 5.1. Chains of Rhythmical Dissonances
- 5.2. Other Parameters in Displacement Dissonances
- 5.3. Imitation
- 5.4. Ligaturae, Retardation, Anticipation
- 5.5. Syncopated Accompaniment
- 5.6. Remark on Subliminal Dissonances
- Chapter 6. Changing Meter III: Change of Tactus
- 6.1. Changes of Taktteile in Compound Meters
- 6.2. Changes of Taktteile in Double Measures
- 6.3. Perceptual Factors
- 6.4. Taktteile and the Tactus
- Chapter 7. Analyses of Long-Range Metrical Strategies
- Haydn, String Quartet in C major, Op. 50 No. 2, First Movement
- Haydn, String Quartet in F minor, Op. 55 No. 2, Finale
- Chapter 8. Wit, Comedy and Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart's Personal Styles
- 8.1. Haydn
- 8.2. Mozart
- 8.3. Haydn's Earlier and Later String Quartets
- 8.4. Inconclusive Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Compositions by Haydn and Mozart
- General Index