The Stratification of Musical Rhythm

by Maury Yeston

Book Overview

There are many books on counterpoint and harmony, but few indeed on the theory of rhythm. Those few approach it through its graphic notation, or in terms of metrical feet, as if it were poetry. Maury Yeston treats rhythm instead in the context of sounded music, with a view to clarifying its ambiguous and little studied, but crucial, relationship with pitch. Although his work is strongly influenced by the methods of the German theorist Heinrich Schenker,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300018843
• ISBN13: 9780300018844
• Release Date: February 1976
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"