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Thinking with and about rhythm

Article: English. Bibliographic reference
Author(s)
Hasty, Christopher
Title
Thinking with and about rhythm / Christopher Hasty
In
Thought and play in musical rhythm : Asian, African, and Euro-American perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
Type of material
Article
ISBN / ISSN
978-0-19-084148-5
This chapter argues for a construction of the word “rhythm” that might contribute to ways of thinking and speaking about music that would validate the activity, the on-goingness, and the actuality of musicing. If discourse about music is connected to music, and if nothing—neither words nor concepts—escapes time, then talk of rhythm is itself not without or outside rhythm. Following an exploration of several allied terms (“event,” “duration,” “dimension”), the argument turns to sonic examples and concludes with a detailed analysis of the first phrase of the “Pleni sunt coeli” from Josquin des Prez’s Pange lingua mass.