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HISTORICAL HYPERMETRICAL HEARING: UNCERTAINTY, FLOORS AND TRAPDOORS

HISTORICAL HYPERMETRICAL HEARING: UNCERTAINTY, FLOORS AND TRAPDOORS This article attempts a partial reconstruction of historical metrical hearing for late eighteenth‐century Viennese chamber music. Specifically, I build on two traits of the historical listener. First, eighteenth‐century listeners were first‐time listeners, a simple fact with significant consequences for how we understand composers’ intentions and listeners’ experiences. Second, eighteenth‐century listeners were saturated with the music of the day, to a much broader and shallower extent than the modern canon‐bound listener. This second trait enabled eighteenth‐century listeners to absorb the statistical regularities of their musical culture, giving them a set of norms through which to comprehend pieces on the first hearing. In this essay I discuss the consequences of these traits for hypermetre. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Music Analysis Wiley

HISTORICAL HYPERMETRICAL HEARING: UNCERTAINTY, FLOORS AND TRAPDOORS

Music Analysis , Volume 35 (2) – Jul 1, 2016

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Wiley
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Music Analysis © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISSN
0262-5245
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1468-2249
DOI
10.1111/musa.12058
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Abstract

This article attempts a partial reconstruction of historical metrical hearing for late eighteenth‐century Viennese chamber music. Specifically, I build on two traits of the historical listener. First, eighteenth‐century listeners were first‐time listeners, a simple fact with significant consequences for how we understand composers’ intentions and listeners’ experiences. Second, eighteenth‐century listeners were saturated with the music of the day, to a much broader and shallower extent than the modern canon‐bound listener. This second trait enabled eighteenth‐century listeners to absorb the statistical regularities of their musical culture, giving them a set of norms through which to comprehend pieces on the first hearing. In this essay I discuss the consequences of these traits for hypermetre.

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Music AnalysisWiley

Published: Jul 1, 2016

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