Meter as a kind of attentional behavior -- Research on temporal perception and its relevance for theories of musical meter -- Meter-rhythm interactions I : ground rules -- Metric representations and metric well-formedness -- Meter-rhythm interactions II : problems -- Metric flux in Beethoven's Fifth -- Non-isochronous meters -- NI meters in theory and practice -- The many meters hypothesis
Summary
'Hearing in Time' explores musical meter from the point of view of cognitive theories of perception & attention - how our ability to follow musical order is simply a specific instance of our more general ability to synchronize our attention to regularly occuring events in our environment
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-189) and index
