The geometry of musical rhythm : what makes a "good" rhythm good? /: what makes a "good" rhythm good?. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Godfried T. Toussaint.
• Authors: Toussaint, Godfried T, 1944-
• Contents: Preface to First Edition Preface to Second Edition 1. What is Rhythm 2. Isochrony, Tempo, and Performance Isochronous Rhythms Tempo Performance 3. Timelines, Ostinatos and Meter 4. The Wooden Claves 5. The Iron Bells 6. The Clave Son: A Ubiquitous Rhythm 7. Six Distinguished Rhythm Timelines The Shiko Timeline The Clave Rumba The Soukous Timeline The Gahu Timeline The Bossa-Nova Timeline 8. The Distance Geometry of Rhythm 9. Classification of Rhythms 10. Binary and Ternary Rhythms 11. The Isomorphism Between Rhythms and Scales 12. Binarization, Ternarization, and Quantization of Rhythms 13. Syncopated Rhythms Metrical Complexity Keith’s Measure of Syncopation 14. Necklaces and Bracelets 15. Rhythmic Oddity 16. Off-Beat Rhythms 17. Rhythm Complexity Objective, Cognitive and Performance Complexities The Lempel-Ziv Complexity The Cognitive Complexity of Rhythms Irregularity and the Normalized Pairwise Variability Index 18. Meter and Metric Complexity What is Meter? Does African Rhythm Possess Meter? Pulse Saliency Histograms in Renaissance and Common Practice Music African Rhythm Timelines and Western Music Keith’s Mathematical Measure of Meter Complexity The Interaction Between Meter and Rhythm Perception 19. Rhythmic Grouping 20. Dispersion Problems: Perfectly Even, Maximally Even, and Balanced Rhythms 21. Euclidean Rhythms, Euclidean Strings, and Well-Formed Rhythms 22. Lunisolar Rhythms: Leap Year Patterns 23. Almost Maximally Even Rhythms 24. Homometric Rhythms and Crystallography 25. Complementary Rhythms 26. Flat Rhythms and Radio Astronomy 27. Deep Rhythms 28. Shelling Rhythms 29. Phase Rhythms: The "Good, " the "Bad, " and the "Ugly" 30. Phantom Rhythms 31. Reflection Rhythms, Elastic Rhythms, and Rhythmic Canons Reflection Rhythms Paradiddle Method Alternating-Hands Method Elastic Rhythms Rhythmic Canons 32. Toggle Rhythms 33. Symmetric Rhythms Hourglass Rhythms Sub-Symmetries 34. Rhythms with an Odd Number of Pulses 35. Visualization and Representation of Rhythms Alternating-Hands Box Notation Spectral Notation TEDAS Notation Chronotonic Notation Phase Space Plots Tangle Diagrams 36. Rhythm Similarity and Dissimilarity Hamming Distance Swap Distance Directed Swap Distance Many-to-Many Assignment Distance Geometric Distance Edit Distance 37. Grouping and Meter as Features of Rhythm Similarity The Edit Distance with Grouping Information The Edit Distance with Meter Information 38. Regular and Irregular Rhythms 39. Evolution and Phylogenetic Analysis of Musical Rhythms Phylogenetic Analysis of Cultural Objects Phylogenetic Analysis of Flamenco Compás The Guajira Phylogenetic Analysis of Ancient Greek Paeonic Rhythms 40. Rhythm Combinatorics 41. What Makes the Clave Son Such a "Good" Rhythm? Evenness and Balance Rhythmic Oddity Off-Beatness Weighted Off-Beatness Metrical Complexity and Keith’s Measure of Syncopation Main-Beat Onsets and Closure Cardinality of Distinct Durations Cardinality of Distinct Adjacent Durations Onset-Complexity and Sum of Distinct Distances Deep Rhythms, Deepness, and Shallowness Tallness Prototypicality and Phylogenetic Tree Centrality Mirror Symmetry Pulse Sub-Symmetries IOI Duration Sub-Symmetries Area of Phase Space Plots Fractal Metric Hierarchy Shadow Contour Isomorphism 42. On the Origin, Evolution, and Migration of the Clave Son 43. Epilogue References Books, Book Chapters and Theses Journal Articles and Conference Proceedings
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 781.2240285; Rhythm -- Mathematical models; Rhythm -- Computer simulation; Geometry, Descriptive
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351247757; 9781351247764; 9781351247740; 9781351247771
• Related ISBNs: 9780815350385; 9780815370970
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