TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nigel Nettheim
PY  - 2024
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1660-8666
SN  - 9783034346917
TI  - How Musical Rhythm Reveals Human Attitudes
T2  - An Annotated Translation by Nigel Nettheim
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1342258
N2  - What is the broadest significance of musical rhythm? Human attitudes to the world are reflected in it, according to Gustav Becking. Writing in the 1920s, Becking proposed a novel method of finding systematic differences of attitude between individual composers, between nations, and between historical time periods. He dealt throughout with Western classical music, from the period approximately 1600-1900. His method was to observe in fine detail the pattern of motion and pressure traced out by a small baton allowed to move in sympathy with a given musical excerpt. The various patterns arising for individual composers were represented graphically, and in that form became known as «Becking curves». Implications were touched upon in psychology, sociology and philosophy. His thesis is now published in English translation from the original German for the first time, with many annotations.
KW  - Analysis, Aesthetics, Theory of Art, Poetics, Attitude and Role, History of Styles, Forms and Genres, History of Musical Periods
LA  - English
ER  -