Peter Cheyne - The Philosophy of Rhythm: Aesthetics, Music, Poetics

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cheyne, Peter. | Hamilton, Andy, 1957 | Paddison, Max.

Title: The philosophy of rhythm : aesthetics, music, poetics / edited by

Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] |

Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019004326 | ISBN 9780199347773 (cloth) |

ISBN 9780199347780 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780199347896 (oxford scholarship online) | ISBN 9780190067922 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Musical meter and rhythm. | MusicPhilosophy and aesthetics. |

Musical perception. | MusicPsychological aspects.

Classification: LCC ML3850 .P55 2019 | DDC 781.2/24117dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019004326

This remarkable collection of essays brings together philosophical and empirical approaches to the significance of rhythm across the arts. The approach is refreshingly interdisciplinary. Anyone concerned with the place of rhythm and metric structure in the arts, andmore generallywithin the wider domain of human practices will find this an extraordinarily helpful volume.

Robert Kraut, Professor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University

Fascinating and mysterious, rhythm is at the heart of music, dance, poetry, sociology, and neuroscience. This inspired volume engages, enlightens, and is the first to explore rhythm across a broad range of philosophical, aesthetic, and perceptual domains. This book is required reading for anyone concerned with time and rhythm in contemporary life.

Peter Nelson, University of Edinburgh

This wonderful collection considers questions about rhythm from a wide variety of angles, perspectives, and disciplinesamong them analytic and continental philosophy, musicology, art history, poetics, and neuroscience. Like the dialogue that opens the book, The Philosophy of Rhythm supports no particular line of thought or argument but enormously deepens our understanding of a topic so palpable and yet so mysterious.

Christoph Cox, Hampshire College

This project began in the mists of time, as a collaboration between Andy Hamilton and Will Montgomery. Will had to pull out and Max Paddison took his placebut Will remained as a contributor and his essay on rhythm in poetry is invaluable. Max has worked on musical time since his contributions to the 2004 special edition of Musicae Scientiae on spatialization and temporality in music, while Andys first publication on rhythm was for Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society in 2011. Maxs expertise in Continental philosophical traditions has been a necessary corrective to Andys more analytic background, and they organized a workshop in Durham in 2013, at which many contributions were presented. Besides his contributed essay, Peter Cheyne has been involved in an editorial role from an early stage. He reorganized the material, making it thematic rather than discipline-centered, and closely edited each chapter.

Acknowledgments are gratefully given to Laura Dearlove for diligently checking the style of several chapters; Anthony Parton for advice on artwork permissions; Suzanne Ryan, Jamie Kim, and Dorian Mueller at OUP for their work in helping to bring the volume to press; the anonymous reader for careful criticisms; Brian Marley for invaluable assistance in helping compile the index; and Durham University and the British Society of Aesthetics for their support for the workshop. Later-stage work was supported by JSPS Kakenhi grant number 19K00143. Finally, a sincere apology is due to the patient contributors. This volume has taken much longer in preparation than was originally anticipated.

Peter Cheyne, Andy Hamilton, and Max Paddison

Andy Hamilton, David Macarthur, Roger Squires, Matthew Tugby, and Rachael Wiseman (compiled and edited by Andy Hamilton)

Matthew Nudds

Peter Simons

Jenny Judge

Aili Bresnahan

Garry L. Hagberg

Deniz Peters

Michael Spitzer

Alison Stone

Ted Gracyk

Justin London

Martin Clayton

Michael Tenzer

Udo Will

Christopher Hasty

Peter Cheyne

Max Paddison

Salom Jacob

Jason Gaiger

Vctor Dur-Vil

Jason David Hall

Rebecca Wallbank

Will Montgomery

John Holliday

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Aili Bresnahan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dayton (USA). She specializes in aesthetics, particularly in applied philosophy of dance, improvisation, interpretation, and the philosophy of mind and motor cognition as it relates to the performing arts. She is also the founder and moderator of Dance Philosophers, an interdisciplinary research and networking Google group. More information can be found on her professional website: https://www.artistsmatter.com. Contact:abresnahan1@udayton.edu.

Peter Cheyne is Associate Professor at Shimane University, and Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at Durham University. He is leading two international projects, one on the Aesthetics of Perfection and Imperfection, the other on the Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Published in journals including Intellectual History Review and the Journal of Philosophy of Life, and editor and co-author of Coleridge and Contemplation (OUP, 2017), he recently completed a monograph on Coleridges Contemplative Philosophy (OUP, forthcoming 2020).

Martin Clayton is Professor in Ethnomusicology at Durham University. His publications include Time in Indian Music (OUP, 2000) and Experience and Meaning in Music Performance (OUP, 2013, co-edited with Laura Leante and Byron Dueck). He is currently pursuing research on entrainment in musical performance within Durhams Music and Science Lab (https://musicscience.net).

Vctor Dur-Vil is Lecturer at the University of Leeds. In aesthetics, he works on Humean aesthetics, aesthetic experience, ethics and aesthetics, aesthetic cognitivism, as well as on interdisciplinary projects in music and dance. Other research interests include applied ethics (parental obligations; autonomy and paternalism) and philosophy of physics. His work has been published in journals such as