How Down is a Downbeat? Feeling Meter and Gravity in Music and Dance
The idea that metrical accent might be related to an embodied sense of "up" and "down" is implied by the terms "upbeat" and "downbeat," and is central to theories of meter as gravitational field, such as those evolved by Robert Hatten and Steve Larson. Yet as...
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| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v10i1-2.4577 |