Workshops, Kurse, Vorträge

Music theorists have sophisticated methods for comparing musical intuitions about distances between pitches, harmonies, and tonal regions, and collating those distance judgments by means of twodimensional graphs. But, when it
comes to rhythms and meter, analogous methods are lacking. In this lecture, I introduce a method for defining and labeling metric states; assessing and comparing the distances between them; representing them on a graphic space that is analogous to that occupied by chord and keys; and using that space to record syntactic progressions between metric states. Examples of such syntactic progressions are drawn from Schumann, Brahms, and Dvorák.