Meter in Music, 1600–1800

George Houle, Professor Emeritus of Music at Stanford University and former music director of the New York Pro Musica, is a performer and music historian particularly interested in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He is editor of Doulce mémoire, Le ballet des fâcheux, and Ockeghem's Missa Cuiusvis Toni, and co-editor of The Music for Viola Bastarda by Jason Paras (all from Indiana University Press).

• Introduction1. The Origins of the Measure in the Seventeenth Century2. Time Signatures in the Eighteenth Century3. Rhythmopoeia: Quantitative Meters in Poetry and Music4. Quantitas Intrinseca: The Perception of Meter5. Articulation of Quantitative Meter6. Accent as Measure Articulation and as Measure DefinitionAppendix: Rhythmopoeia according to Johann Mattheson and Wolfgang Caspar PrintzNotesBibliographyIndex

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