How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes An Annotated Translation by Nigel Nettheim

• Main Author: Nettheim, Nigel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2011
• Series: Varia Musicologica 16
• Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; Music reviews & criticism; Music: styles & genres; Philosophy: aesthetics; Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Aesthetics, Theory of Art, Poetics; Analysis; Annotated; Attitude and Role; Attitudes; History of Musical Periods; History of Styles, Forms and Genres; Human; Krakauer; Musical; Nettheim; Nigel; Peter; Reveals; Rhythm; Translation
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What is the broadest significance of musical rhythm? Human attitudes to the world are reflected in it, according to Gustav Becking. Writing in the 1920s, Becking proposed a novel method of finding systematic differences of attitude between individual composers, between nations, and between historica...