Studying Rhythm

by Hall, Anne Carothers, Professor Emeritus

• ISBN13: 9780130406026
• ISBN10: 0130406023
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2004-08-18
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Featuring over 300 metrical rhythmic studies in simple musical forms carefully graded, with short preliminary exercises this volume introduces readers to the basic processes and complexities of musical rhythm and helps them develop the ability to perform all kinds of rhythmic patterns accurately at sight. Suitable not only for reading, but for dictation, improvisation, and composition and for different methods the collection contains one- and two-part rhythmic studies mostly 12 to 16 measures long that are intended to be sung, spoken, and tapped or clapped.The volume examines the full range of meter studies, rests and syncopation, triplets, beats, small subdivisions, changing simple and compound meter, notes in two and three beats, four against three, four notes in three beats; three notes in four beats, quintuplets and septuplets, meters with unequal beats, changing meters with unequal beats, cross-rhythms and tempo modulation.For those interested in the rhythmic patterns most frequently encountered in Western art music.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(6)
Two-Four Meter	7	(5)
Three-Four Meter	12	(5)
Four-Four Meter	17	(5)
Dotted Quarters and Tied Eighths in Simple Meter	22	(4)
Six-Eight Meter	26	(5)
Sixteenth-Notes in Simple Meter	31	(5)
Dotted Eighths in Simple Meter	36	(5)
Sixteenth-Notes in Six-Eight Meter	41	(5)
More Rests and Syncopation in Simple Meter	46	(5)
More Rests and Syncopation in Six-Eight Meter	51	(5)
Nine-Eight and Twelve-Eight Meter	56	(5)
Triplets	61	(5)
Two Against Three	66	(7)
Half-Note Beat	73	(6)
Dotted-Half-Note Beat	79	(5)
Eighth-Note Beat	84	(5)
Dotted-Eighth-Note Beat	89	(4)
Small Subdivisions	93	(5)
Changing Simple Meter	98	(5)
Changing Compound Meter	103	(4)
Changing Between Simple and Compound Meter with the Division Constant	107	(6)
Changing Between Simple and Compound Meter with the Beat Constant	113	(5)
Three Notes in Two Beats; Two Notes in Three Beats	118	(7)
Four Against Three	125	(5)
Four Notes in Three Beats; Three Notes in Four Beats	130	(7)
Quintuplets and Septuplets	137	(7)
Five-Eight Meter	144	(5)
More Meters with Unequal Beats	149	(5)
Changing Meters with Unequal Beats	154	(6)
More Cross-Rhythms	160	(5)
Tempo Modulation	165