This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book, now co-
authored with Remy Martin, incorporates new material on rock music theory, style change …

The original edition of The Geometry of Musical Rhythm was the first book to provide a
systematic and accessible computational geometric analysis of the musical rhythms of the …

In all of the books about rock music, relatively few focus on the purely musical dimensions of
the style: dimensions of harmony and melody, tonality and scale, rhythm and meter, phrase …

" There's a moment in Janis Joplin's rendition of" Piece of My Heart" that anyone who has
heard the song even once will recall vividly. I'm referring of course to Joplin's explosive cry …

More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot
between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to …

Many popular and improvised musics project duple meter at multiple levels of a metric
hierarchy, and superimpose upon them a series of three-unit spans that induce multi …

The prevailing approach to bar lengths in pop/rock music uses the standard rock drum beat
as a model, whereby the kick is assigned to beats 1 and 3 and the snare to beats 2 and 4 in …

The music of Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah is known for combining a rigid 4/4-
based hypermetrical song structure with riffs having a variety of durational spans. These …

This article explores the nature of metrical knowledge underlying Justin London's many-
meters hypothesis. It argues that meter is a form of culturally situated kinesthetic knowledge …

While syncopation generally refers to any conflict between surface accents and underlying
meter, in rock and other recent popular styles it takes a more specific form in which accented …