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Formal Functions of Metric Dissonance in Rock Music

Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the interactions of metric dissonance with phrase structure and form in rock music, offers categorization schemes for common formal functions of metric dissonance, and presents several corpus studies of metric dissonance in the works of single artists and bands as well as in a cross-section of rock songs. These data allow for comparative analyses of the metric profile of a given artist or band, suggest genre correlations with particular metric patterns, and demonstrate a trend of increasing metric dissonance throughout the history of rock.
Institution: McGill University
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1574474200
FWCI: 56.01
Cites: 86
Cited by: 146
Related to: 10