Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: William Rothstein's article "National metrical types in music of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries" (2008) proposes a distinction between the metrical habits of 18 th and early 19 th century German music and those of Italian and French music of that period.Based on theoretical treatises and compositional practice, he outlines these national metrical types and discusses the characteristics of each type.This paper presents the results of a study designed to determine whether, and to what degree, Rothstein's characterizations of national metrical types are present in 19 th century French and German art song.Studying metrical habits in this genre may provide a lens into changing metrical conceptions of 19 th century theorists and composers, as well as to the metrical habits and compositional style of individual 19 th century French and German art song composers.
Source: Empirical Musicology Review
DOI: 10.18061/1811/44659
Author: Leigh VanHandel
Institution: Michigan State University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W193109236