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100 1 _aToussaint, Godfried T.,
_d1944-2019.
245 1 4 _aThe geometry of musical rhythm :
_bwhat makes a "good" rhythm good? /
_cGodfried T. Toussaint ; illustrative drawings by Yang Liu.
260 _aBoca Raton, FL :
_bCRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,
_c2013.
300 _axvii, 347 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c26 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _a"A Chapman & Hall book."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-336) and index.
505 0 _aProlegomenon -- Author -- What is rhythm? -- A steady beat -- Timelines, ostinatos, and meter -- The wooden claves -- The iron bells -- The clave son -- Six distinguished rhythm timelines -- The distance geometry of rhythm -- Classification of rhythms -- Binary and ternary rhythms -- The isomorphism of rhythm and scale -- Binarization, ternarization, and quantization of rhythms -- Syncopated rhythms : Keith's measure of syncopation -- Necklaces and bracelets -- Rhythmic oddity -- Off-beat rhythms -- Rhythm complexity : Objective, cognitive, and performance complexities ; Lempel-ziv complexity ; Cognitive complexity of rhythms ; Irregularity and the normalized pairwise variability index -- Dispersion problems and maximally even rhythms -- Euclidean rhythms -- Leap years: the rhythm of the stars -- Approximately even rhythms -- Rhythms and crystallography -- Complementary rhythms -- Radio astronomy and flat rhythms -- Deep rhythms -- Shelling rhythms -- Phantom rhythms -- Reflection rhythms and rhythmic canons -- Toggle rhythms -- Symmetric rhythms : Hourglass drums and hourglass rhythms -- Odd rhythms -- Other representations of rhythm : Alternating-hands box notation ; Spectral notation ; Tedas and chronotonic notation -- Rhythmic similarity and dissimilarity -- Regular and irregular rhythms -- Evolution and phylogenesis of musical rhythm : Guajira -- Rhythmic combinatorics -- What makes the clave son such a good rhythm? : Maximal evenness ; Rhythmic oddity ; Off-beatness ; Weighted off-beatness -- Metrical complexity -- Main-beat onsets and closure ; Distinct durations ; Distinct adjacent durations ; Onset-complexity and distinct distances ; Deep rhythms, deepness, and shallowness ; Tallness ; Phylogenetic tree centrality ; Mirror symmetry ; Shadow contour isomorphism -- The origin, evolution, and migration of the clave son -- Epilogue.
650 0 _aMusical meter and rhythm.
650 0 _aMusic theory.
650 0 _aRhythm.
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