Christopher Hasty's scholarly work engages problems in the theory and analysis of music from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the standpoint of process and experience. His book Meter as Rhythm (1997) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory for the Outstanding Music Theory Book of the Year. His current research interests include process philosophy, poetic prosody, and ecological and post-cognitivist psychology.

[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music.

• PART IMETER AND RHYTHM COMPOSED ONEGeneral Characterization of the Opposition Periodicity and the Denial of TasteRhythmic ExperiencePeriod versus Pattern; Metrical Accent versus Rhythmic Accent TWOTwo Eighteenth-Century Views THREEEvaluations of Rhythm and Meter FOURDistinctions of Rhythm and Meter in Three Influential American Studies FIVEDiscontinuity of Number and Continuity of Tonal "Motion" PART IIA THEORY OF METER AS PROCESS SIXPreliminary Definitions:Begining, End, and Duration"Now"Durational Determinacy SEVENMeter as Projection:"Projection Defined"Projection and Prediction EIGHTPrecedents for a Theory of Projection NINESome Traditional Questions of Meter Approached from the Perspective of Projective Process:AccentDivisionHierarchyAnacrusisPulse and BeatMetrical Types - Equal/Unequal TENMetrical Particularity:Particularity and ReproductionTwo Examples ELEVENObstacles to a View of Meter as Process:Meter as Habit"Large Scale Meter as Container (Hypermeter) TWELVEThe Limits of Meter:The Durational "Extent" of ProjectionThe Efficacy of MeterSome Small Examples THIRTEENOverlapping, End as Aim, Projective Types:OverlappingEnd as AimProjective Types FOURTEENProblems of Meter in Early-Seventeenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Music:Monteverdi, "Oime, se tanto amate" (First Phase)Shutz, "Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem"Webern, Quartet, op. 22Babbitt, Du SIXTEENThe Spatialization of Time and the Eternal "Now Moment"

Christopher Hasty's scholarly work engages problems in the theory and analysis of music from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the standpoint of process and experience. His book Meter as Rhythm (1997) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory for the Outstanding Music Theory Book of the Year. His current research interests include process philosophy, poetic prosody, and ecological and post-cognitivist psychology.

[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music.

• PART IMETER AND RHYTHM COMPOSED ONEGeneral Characterization of the Opposition Periodicity and the Denial of TasteRhythmic ExperiencePeriod versus Pattern; Metrical Accent versus Rhythmic Accent TWOTwo Eighteenth-Century Views THREEEvaluations of Rhythm and Meter FOURDistinctions of Rhythm and Meter in Three Influential American Studies FIVEDiscontinuity of Number and Continuity of Tonal "Motion" PART IIA THEORY OF METER AS PROCESS SIXPreliminary Definitions:Begining, End, and Duration"Now"Durational Determinacy SEVENMeter as Projection:"Projection Defined"Projection and Prediction EIGHTPrecedents for a Theory of Projection NINESome Traditional Questions of Meter Approached from the Perspective of Projective Process:AccentDivisionHierarchyAnacrusisPulse and BeatMetrical Types - Equal/Unequal TENMetrical Particularity:Particularity and ReproductionTwo Examples ELEVENObstacles to a View of Meter as Process:Meter as Habit"Large Scale Meter as Container (Hypermeter) TWELVEThe Limits of Meter:The Durational "Extent" of ProjectionThe Efficacy of MeterSome Small Examples THIRTEENOverlapping, End as Aim, Projective Types:OverlappingEnd as AimProjective Types FOURTEENProblems of Meter in Early-Seventeenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Music:Monteverdi, "Oime, se tanto amate" (First Phase)Shutz, "Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem"Webern, Quartet, op. 22Babbitt, Du SIXTEENThe Spatialization of Time and the Eternal "Now Moment"

Christopher Hasty's scholarly work engages problems in the theory and analysis of music from the 16th to the 20th centuries from the standpoint of process and experience. His book Meter as Rhythm (1997) won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory for the Outstanding Music Theory Book of the Year. His current research interests include process philosophy, poetic prosody, and ecological and post-cognitivist psychology.

[A] significant contribution to the study of the temporal aspects of music.

• PART IMETER AND RHYTHM COMPOSED ONEGeneral Characterization of the Opposition Periodicity and the Denial of TasteRhythmic ExperiencePeriod versus Pattern; Metrical Accent versus Rhythmic Accent TWOTwo Eighteenth-Century Views THREEEvaluations of Rhythm and Meter FOURDistinctions of Rhythm and Meter in Three Influential American Studies FIVEDiscontinuity of Number and Continuity of Tonal "Motion" PART IIA THEORY OF METER AS PROCESS SIXPreliminary Definitions:Begining, End, and Duration"Now"Durational Determinacy SEVENMeter as Projection:"Projection Defined"Projection and Prediction EIGHTPrecedents for a Theory of Projection NINESome Traditional Questions of Meter Approached from the Perspective of Projective Process:AccentDivisionHierarchyAnacrusisPulse and BeatMetrical Types - Equal/Unequal TENMetrical Particularity:Particularity and ReproductionTwo Examples ELEVENObstacles to a View of Meter as Process:Meter as Habit"Large Scale Meter as Container (Hypermeter) TWELVEThe Limits of Meter:The Durational "Extent" of ProjectionThe Efficacy of MeterSome Small Examples THIRTEENOverlapping, End as Aim, Projective Types:OverlappingEnd as AimProjective Types FOURTEENProblems of Meter in Early-Seventeenth-Century and Twentieth-Century Music:Monteverdi, "Oime, se tanto amate" (First Phase)Shutz, "Adjuro vos, filiae Jerusalem"Webern, Quartet, op. 22Babbitt, Du SIXTEENThe Spatialization of Time and the Eternal "Now Moment"