Hearing in Time

• Remains the first music-theoretic approach which integrates perceptual and cognitive limits into a formalized account of musical meter.
• Uses an approach to musical meter that is grounded on perceptual and cognitive universals, rather than cultural or stylistic norms.
• Includes musical examples ranging from Beethoven and Bach to Brubeck and Ghanaian (Ewe) song and drumming.
• Shows music theorists and psychologists the depth of relevant research that has been undertaken in each other's fields.
• Contains a new chapter on the neuroscience and development of musical meter
• Draws on recent mathematical and geometrical models of musical rhythm, and relates them to the representations for musical meter Hearing in Time develops
• Additional case studies (i.e. musical analyses) will illustrate the points made and enhance the attractiveness of the volume for music theorists.
• Bibliography and citations have been thoroughly updated and expanded.

Readership: Musicologists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists, musicians and composers as well as cognitive psychologists and music cognition researchers.

Justin London, Professor of Music, Carleton College

Justin London is Professor of Music at Carleton College. He is the author of Hearing in Time (OUP 2004) as well as several articles in the recent revision of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory. He served as President of the Society for Music Theory in 2007-2009.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Meter as a Kind of Attentional Behavior
Relevant research on Rhythmic Perception and Production
The Neurobiology and Development of Rhythm
Meter-Rhythm Interactions I: Ground Rules
Metric Representations and Metric Well-Formedness
Meter-Rhythm Interactions II: Problems
Metric Flux in Beethoven's Fifth
Non-Isochronous Meters
NI-Meters in Theory and Practice
The Many Meters Hypothesis
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index