The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music

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List of contributors

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Introduction

Mark Doffman, Toby Young, and Emily Payne Section I: Framing musical time 1 Time in music and philosophy

Andrew Bowie 2 Forms of time in nineteeth-century music: Geology, the railway, and the novel

Lawrence Kramer 3 Music as time, music as timeless

Kristina Knowles 4 Rhythm, time, and presence

Anne Danielsen 5 Politicking musical time

Chris Stover 6 To be in time: Repetition, temporality, and the musical work

Nathan Mercieca 7 Distracted attention, temporal switches, and the consolations of performing

Anthony Gritten

Section II: Cognition, action and experience

8 Music, evolution, and the experience of time

John C. Bispham

9 Timescales and the temporal emergence of musicking

Juan M. Loaiza

10 Understanding musical instants

Rolf Inge Godøy

11 Cross-modality and embodiment of tempo and timing

Renee Timmers

12 The mind is a DJ: Rhythmic entrainment in beatmatching and embodied temporal processing

Maria Witek

13 Non-isochronous meter in music from Mali

Rainer Polak

Section III: Metrics and temporal organisation

14 Towards a cognitively-based quantification of metrical dissonance

Mark Gotham

15 Maelzel, the metronome, and the modern mechanics of musical time

Alexander E. Bonus

16 Rhythm quantization: Notes on the history of a technocultural practice

Landon Morrison

17 11, 12, and 13½ bar blues: Time and African-American country blues recordings (1925-38)

Andrew Bowsher

18 Metrical displacement and group interaction in 'Evidence' by the Thelonious Monk Quartet

Ryan D. W. Bruce

19 The politics of musical time in the everyday life of ballet dancers

Jonathan Still

Section IV: Cultures of time

20 Temporalities of North Indian classical listening: How listeners use music to construct time

Chloë Alaghband-Zadeh

21 Timing in palaran: Coordination, control, and excitement in Javanese collaborative vocal accompaniment

Jonathan Roberts

22 Here at the bottom of the sky: Negotiating time through phrase, form, and tradition within a New York performance network

Nathan C. Bakkum

23 Time and ensemble dynamics in indeterminacy: John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra

Emily Payne

24 'Making, not filling time': Time and notation in improvised musical performance

Floris Schuiling

25 Musical time in a fast world

Samuel Wilson

26 The radical temporality of drum and bass

Toby Young

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