Combining historical music theory with the cognitive study of music, Playing with Meter traces metric manipulations and strategies in Haydn and Mozart's string

For the past four decades, the concept of hypermeter has been routinely applied to eighteenth-century music. But was this concept familiar in the eighteenth cen

"This book presents a systematic discussion of hypermeter and phrase structure in eighteenth-century music. It combines perspectives from historical and modern

Combining historical music theory with the cognitive study of music, this book traces metric manipulations and strategies in Haydn and Mozart's string chamber m

This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.