The Cambridge Companion to Rhythm

One of the defining aspects of music is that it exists in time. From clapping to dancing, toe-tapping to head-nodding, the responses of musicians and listeners alike capture the immediacy and significance of the musical beat. This Companion explores the richness of musical time through a variety of perspectives, surveying influential writings on the topic, incorporating the perspectives of listeners, analysts, composers, and performers, and considering the subject across a range of genres and cultures. It includes chapters on music perception, visualizing rhythmic notation, composers' writings on rhythm, rhythm in jazz, rock, and hip-hop. Taking a global approach, chapters also explore rhythmic styles in the music of India, Africa, Bali, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Indigenous music of North and South America. Readers will gain an understanding of musicians' approaches to performing complex rhythms of contemporary music, and revealing insights into the likely future of rhythm in music.

Provides an overview of the use of rhythm in Western and non-Western music for a wider understanding of how rhythm functions in different musical contexts
Examines rhythm in many forms of contemporary genres including jazz, hip hop, rock, and classical music and provides practical tips on performing music of all kinds
Explores the increasing significance of rhythm in all kinds of music and how this importance is likely to develop in future

CONTENIDOS:

Introduction Russell Hartenberger and Ryan McClelland
I. Overview of rhythm:
1. Rhythm in Western music: Concepts and literature Ryan McClelland
2. Perception of rhythm Daniel Cameron and Jessica Grahn
II. Performing rhythm:
3. Visualizing the rhythms of performance Alan Dodson
4. A percussionist understands rhythm Steven Schick
5. A different kind of virtuosity Russell Hartenberger
6. Conducting rhythm David Robertson
III. Composing with rhythm:
7. Expressive rhythm and meter in the German Lied Harald Krebs
8. Rhythm in post-tonal music: a modernist primer Gretchen Horlacher
9. The concept of rhythm: composers in their own words Adam Sliwinski
IV. Rhythm in jazz and popular music:
10. Jazz rhythm: the challenge of ?swing? Matthew W. Butterfield
11. Rhythmic influence in the rock revolution Trevor de Clercq
12. Rhythm in contemporary rap music Mitchell Ohriner
V. Rhythm in global musics:
13. The musical rhythm of Agbadza songs David Locke
14. Rhythmic thought and practice in the Indian subcontinent James Kippen
15. The draw of Balinese rhythm Leslie Tilley
16. Rhythmic structures in Latin American and Caribbean music Peter Manuel
17. Indigenous rhythm and dance in North and South America Kristina F. Nielsen
VI. Epilogue:
18. The future of rhythm Nick Collins
Select bibliography
Index.