Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era

Download or read book Beating Time & Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era written by Roger Mathew Grant and published by Oxford Studies in Music Theory. This book was released on 2014 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Mathew Grant is Assistant Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. A recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (PhD 2010) his research focuses on the relationships between eighteenth-century music theory, Enlightenment aesthetics, and early modern science. His journal articles have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Journal of Music Theory. A former Junior Fellow of the University of Michigan's Society of Fellows, he was the fourth musicologist ever to hold a fellowship in the forty-year history of the Society.