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Rhythm and Meter CHAPTER 8 RHYTHM AND METER STANDARD RHYTHMS AND meters, the kind used routinely by com posers and performers, offer significant potential for variation and development (Carter 1955; Messiaen 1950). Logical alternatives also exist (Ligeti 1962; Penderecki 1960), many of which offer some composers greater scope to express their personal styles. Restrictions posed by common-practice notation have, some feel, artificially excluded many musical ideas. Bar Lines and Pulsation Discussing rhythm and meter inevitably leads to the division that distinguishes them: the bar line. For centuries music survived without bar lines. With the increase in the size of ensembles, the complexity of rhythmic ideas, and the emphasis on strong beat/weak beat forms such as music for dance, the bar line became a necessity. Example 8.1 shows a short excerpt for piano without bar lines. Note the difficulty of retaining rhythmic order during performance, even with one performer. Amplify this to the size of a large orchestra, and the need for some organizing factor becomes apparent. Organizing music into measure-sized units, however, creates beat patterns and metrical pulses (weak beats and strong beats, depending on placement in the meter). These pulses constrain many contemporary composers who, as a result, turn to new possibilities. Example 8.2, the same passage as shown in Example 8.1 with the addi tion of bar lines, is much easier to read but also suggests strong downbeats and a sense of accented syncopation not present in Example 8.1. These two examples have very different appearances, though both have exactly the same notes. Both have good and bad attributes. Music need not necessarily be restricted to measures or rely on beats. Such reliance can rob composers of the potentials of rhythmic exploration and freedom. 90 CHAPTER EIGHT RHYTHM AND METER 91 = 60 = 72 J. i I ‘ r3E~ F’. n~: ~. j: ~) “if —~ ‘ ‘ Hn. ~ r FL~ d I r EXAMPLE 8.1. Excerpt for piano without bar lines. vh~. J = 60 A J. r’ r3’ ________ I L I EXAMPLE 8.4. Isorhythm used to lessen metric constraints. ‘Fr’ ~__~~tus ~ 1__79 r~ rT ~. rnf ~ Cross-rhythms (polyrhythms) can also relieve the effects J ~ J ~ of internally implied accents. Example 8.5 shows three S •~ •— I I?SI cross-rhythms. The bottom line of Example 8.5a I. •.—.~ actually sounds in ~ meter, creating a cross-rhythm against ~, ~ I the upper line’s 3. The metric accents are either lessened or contrasted, depending on the surrounding style EXJvIPLE 8.2. The previous example, notated with bar lines. and context. Example 8.5b maintains three simultaneous meters, with the eighth- note beat remaining equal for all three, requiring a displacement of bar lines due to the different meters. While such polyrhythms (polymeters) expand rhythmic vocab Freeing Metric Constraints ularies, they also multiply the complexity of the music for performers. The two ideas in Example Meter changes and composite meters are two of the most obvious methods of avoiding 8.5c achieve independence by the use of accents placed indifferent loca tions in the the regularity imposed by meter (Bartok 1934). Example 8.3 demonstrates both tech ~ meter. The performers of such music can often be so intent on achiev ing correct niques. Note that the tendency to emphasize downbeats, as well as strong inner beats, accents that the meter tends to lose centrality and its implied internal accents. has not changed. Metric monotony, however, has been at least temporarily relieved. Consequently, the various ideas freely follow their own design rather than adhering Isorhythms help to lessen the effect of bar lines and weaken their constraints on to the possibly artificial boundaries of metric accents. Hemiola—in rhythm while continuing to maintain ensemble precision (Messiaen 1949). Example general, the concept of three against two—can help alleviate the metric accents 8.4 shows an example of isorhythm. The first melodic line presents a long rhythmic implied by bar lines while allowing bar lines to maintain ensemble order. Example idea that overlaps bar lines. In contrast, the second melodic line follows, even accen S.6a shows hemiola in its more typical, traditional sense. In Example 8.6b, chords tuates, the metric beats and implied accents. tie across beats and bar lines, creating hemiola in a slightly less tradi tional guise. Note how the bar line aids in performance and yet does not disturb the rhythmic freedom of the music. - J~h S-112 . is . .r—~ ~J;s ~. L. i yr. I-’~;~F lHtJ I~jPW ~ I~ ~~.LJ_.J I’ ~J [j~lIi ~ a) yr. ~ ~ f EXAMPLE 8.3. Meter changes and composite meters. EXAMPLE 8.5. Three types of cross-rhythms. (continued) 92 CHAPTER EIGHT RHYTHM AND METER 93 ExAMPLE 8.5. (continued) A fl.5, —.‘—, Vial b) - A20 pp pp-c A — . Ezj ~ Ob, A r—I-—I ,—~—, ...—5.--.—, I—c-, Wn.2 • • P ~. ~ A pp—c = I ~_ - VIn. r ..—. %— va. & .— VS .1! pp -_===~~~;~p. ~‘zrr} Vc, ~ ~r’.—.r~ ~ ~I. Vc. pp I I I -~ pp —~-___.______ _f ~— C) •=92 EXAMPLE 8.7. Avoidance of metric accents using ties and on-beat rests in combination. - I>. I via,. - V ~ V ~ Va. I . I a) A ExAMPLE 8.8. Inner-beat complexity and rests used for maintaining meter without metric & I I .1 accents. La I..-, Metric Modulation b) Metric modulation can also free melodic lines from the restraints of steady beats A I i ~ i e—. ~$ t—~-. ~ (Carter 1955). Example 8.9 shows five measures in which the tempo and the meter modulate so that the flow of music avoids regular and predictable bar lines. At the same time, the bar lines continue to help performers and conductor stay together. Sc J=J) EXAMPLE 86. Two types of hemiola. JJk 3 A SI sr Si S ~ m & Actual avoidance of on-beat notes works as effectively as do ties. In Example 8.7 the use of ties and rests prevents metric interference, as does the use of irregular beat —— I subdivisions. In similar fashion, the music in Example 8.8 retains beat and meter, but the irregular thirty-second-note subdivisions combined with intervening rests free it LJ II from metric regularity. EXAMPLE 8.9. Metric modulation. 95 RHYTHM AND METER CHAPTER EIGHT 94 seldom receive perfect performances traditional rhythms such as those in Example 8.7 may actually with proportional notation. can also have the reverse effect. Performers composers feel that little precision is lost Metric modulation anyway, some risks of establish each new tempo variations. proportional notation significantly increases accent downbeats more harshly in order to In large ensembles, however, with metric mod important melodic lines are previous techniques to avoid metric accent variability. Often in these circumstances, Combining some of the performance dot the music, which are connected by vertical ulation can help to avoid these accents. identified by marks above or below cadences. In Example 8.lOa the com exit accuracy. If these markings are improperly Example 8.10 shows two agogically created ted lines to maintain entrance and presents an alternative etc.) may occut In extreme an easy on-beat solution. Example 8.lOb beats, however, beat implications (accents, poser has opted for construed as a sub should dictate to notation, not vice versa. notation leads to rhythmic indeterminacy, that stretches metric notation. Composers ly large time frames, proportional been used by composers to maintain bar All of these methods, and many more, have ject returned to in chapter 14. lines without restraining rhythmic freedom. Variations and Overviews need to be metrical, while others, even 0) Occasionally some parts of a composition will be rhythmically free (Ligeti 1962). Example those that occur simultaneously, need to In each, the upper line ~ThSH4~ two approaches to this seeming contradiction. ir 8.12 shows In the first pulse that helps to articulate its various patterns. — —~ receives a strong metric f p if independence by use of ties, however, the accompaniment achieves metric excerpt, excerpt shows irregular subdivisions of the beat. The second dJ= avoidance of beats, and free rhythmic improvisation—a type of a group of notes within boxes that indicate an element of indeterminacy. proportionalitV within meter that again introduces Vc. pp metric (a); midineasure offfieac cadence with EXAMPLE 8.10. Strong downbeat cadence ,cl. modulation (b). Proportional Notation horizontal space, with notes placed approxi In proportional notation, time equals (Penderecki 1960). Example 8.11 shows a mately in relation to the given time frame Pf. Here the notes sound as long as the lines passage for piano in proportional notation. the shown time lines. Although intri following them, with duration proportional to proportional notation does provides flex cate rhythms are hard to indicate precisely, on, have vanished. While performers and metric beat, implied accents, and so ibility, their strong met and beat constraints on the music owing to might force such accents b) not suggest such interpretation. Since non- rical backgrounds, the notation itself does .10 I I I p simultaneity. ml’ r..,.,~.,,. Q 1J T,,,nonnrnanhes to metric and nonmetric RHYTHM 96 CHAPTER EIGHT AND METER 97 Both proportional and metrical notation can be used whenever the need arises (Crumb 1970). Composers may achieve almost any effect desired, from the strictest beat-dominated idea to the freest-flowing rhythmic lines. Example 8.13 makes use of both systems of notation for their respective benefits. The notation senza tempo indi cates proportional sections. This “metriportional” approach does not rule out any possible rhythm or rhythmic grouping a composer might wish to use. J 122 Seoza Tempo ,, 6 ,_ ~ 5•~ _A_ kt a _c.,bSL’1’L~ 6. ~ ScozaTempo — ExAMPLE 8.14. Rhythmic ~f~Wr”T ¶l~R I modulation in metered music.
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