A deep dive into the history of the metronome, how humanity's relationship with musical time has developed over the years and a look into the gridification of music.
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Sources:
Tone: A study in Musical Acoustics by Ernst Levy & Siegmund Levarie
Music in the Middle Ages by Gustave Reese
Rhythm & Tempo: A study in Music History by Curt Sachs
Meter in Music, 1600-1800: Performance, Perception and Notation by George Houle
Harmonie Universelle by Marin Mersenne
Compendium Musicae by René Descartes
General Music Teacher by Gotfried Webber
Dilla Time by Dan Charnas
A System of Elocution by Andrew Comstock
A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, by Fred Lerdahl & Ray Jackendoff
Personal Recollections of Johannes Brahms by George Hanschel
Music Theory for Dummies by Holly Day & Michael Pilhofer
The Metronomic Performance Practice: A History of Rhythm, Metronomes, and the Mechanization of Musicality: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/acprod/odb_etd/etd/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=case1270221548
Pythagoras and Aristoxenos Reconciled:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/829897
Observations on the Florid Song by Pier Tosi
https://www.loc.gov/resource/muspre1800.101485/?sp=1&st=image&r=-0.242,-0.05,1.551,0.896,0
Beethoven's Letters: https://ia600902.us.archive.org/12/items/beethovensletter01beet/beethovensletter01beet.pdf
The Uses of Rubato in Music, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries:
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1123&context=ppr
Being Beethoven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhqO6eMq0eY
Problems Regarding the Metronome Markings in the Music of Beethoven: https://ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/7f82e1db-31a9-4f4f-ba87-30e41b62b291/content
Clock Burning Article: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/368807897/
CSIRAC & the first computer music: https://cis.unimelb.edu.au/about/csirac/music/music-played
Can you Improve your Internal Clock WITHOUT a metronome? | Q+A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klZxfUWBBm8&t
Demonstration of David Roentgen's Automaton of Queen Marie Antoinette, the Dulcimer Player: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITEU4fsqCU
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Timestamps:
00:00 - How The Metronome Destroyed Music
01:16 - Part I: Stolen Time
06:28 - Part II: It's All Beethoven's Fault
29:29 - Part III: Natural Law & The Inevitable Metronome
35:19 - Part VI: On Perfectionism & Computer Time
44:58 - Part V: The Gridification of Music