Ethan Hein has a new post up about hypermeter and though I’m not foremost among Beatles’ fans I liked his explication of hypermeter in their songs. In the post he mentions Jason Yust’s Organized Time. Something Yust mentions early in his book is that though he drew up Schenkerian categories one of his chief criticisms of the Schenkerian tradition is its failure to deal with rhythm and if a theory fails to develop an adequate account of rhythm then, to put it very sharply indeed, how is it really ultimately very useful for an art that is about organizing time and space? It is here that I interject that there’s good reason Augustine of Hippo decided to start De Musica with the books on rhythm before he ever got around to discussing melody or harmony. In fact he never moved beyond the treatment of rhythm and never finished De Musica.
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