Beat Hierarchy and Beat Patterns—From Aksak to Composite Meter (original) (raw)

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This essay explores the complexity of asymmetric composite meters in post-tonal music, responding to Richard Cohn's challenge of establishing a descriptive and analytical framework for such meters. By analyzing a range of twentieth-century musical examples, it reveals how composite asymmetrical meters relate to existing metric structures like compound and aksak meters and introduces new concepts such as meta-measures and the time signature map for better representation of these rhythmic continuities.

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