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On the Comprehension of the Phenomenon of Musical Time in Vincent d’Indy’s ‘Cours de composition Musicale’

ISSN 2308-1333

Abstract
The interpretation of the category of musical time and the category of musical rhythm, connected with the first, reveals the specifics of artistic thinking in the boundaries of a certain epoch and in the field of the concrete national culture. Vincent d’Indy, who was famous through his negative view on the problem of meter in music, supposed making a return to the antique “free rhythm” (“rythme libre”) and building the “true art” (“l’art véritable”) on this basis. This article considers d’Indy’s conception in two aspects: an ontological (philosophical) aspect and a technical (practical) one.

Keywords
Vincent d’Indy, musical time, musical rhythm, measure, meter

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