Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Notes to the Reader xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1: Treatise Theory
7. 1. The Foundation of German Baroque Tempo Theory: Michael Praetorius 49
8. 2. Duple Meter 76
9. 3. Triple and Compound Meter: Proportional Relationships 124
10. 4. “2” and Blackened/Whitened Notation 152
11. 5. Beat Patterns and Tempo 175
12. 6. Source Excerpts 196
13. 7. Tempo Words 239
14. Part 2. Score Analysis
15. 8. The Functional Equivalency of the Two “Ordinary” Duple Meters in Later Seventeenth-Century Organ Music 255
16. 9. Stylus Phantasticus 289
17. 10. Differentiations between the Two “Ordinary” Duple Meters in Johann Sebastian Bach’s Music 313
18. 11. The Large Allabreve and the “Kirnbergian” Small Allabreve 334
19. 12. Triple Meter and Tempo Words 388
20. Part 3. Synthesis
21. 13. Case Studies 427
22. 14. Final Remarks, Summary, and Synthesis 464
23. Bibliography 477
24. Index 515