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In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are used to provide training in the analysis, performance, and writing of rhythm, with exercises for the student's own work. This is a path-breaking work, important alike to music students and teachers, but it will make profitable reading for performers, too.New York Times Book ReviewWhen at some future time theories of rhythm . . . are . . . as well understood, and as much discussed as theories of harmony and counterpoint . . . they will rest in no small measure on the foundations laid by Cooper and Meyer in this provocative dissertation on the rhythmic structure of music.Notes. . . . a significant, courageous and, on the whole, successful attempt to deal with a very controversial and neglected subject. Certainly no one who takes the ti

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    A Paperback / softback by Grosvenor Cooper, Leonard B. Meyer

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/04/1963
      ISBN13: 9780226115221, 978-0226115221
      ISBN10: 0226115224
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      Book Synopsis
      In this influential book on the subject of rhythm, the authors develop a theoretical framework based essentially on a Gestalt approach, viewing rhythmic experience in terms of pattern perception or groupings. Musical examples of increasing complexity are used to provide training in the analysis, performance, and writing of rhythm, with exercises for the student's own work. This is a path-breaking work, important alike to music students and teachers, but it will make profitable reading for performers, too.New York Times Book ReviewWhen at some future time theories of rhythm . . . are . . . as well understood, and as much discussed as theories of harmony and counterpoint . . . they will rest in no small measure on the foundations laid by Cooper and Meyer in this provocative dissertation on the rhythmic structure of music.Notes. . . . a significant, courageous and, on the whole, successful attempt to deal with a very controversial and neglected subject. Certainly no one who takes the ti

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