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"... Provides a thorough framework for examining rhythm ... includes expanded sections on movement, improvisation, and curriculum development ... also incorporates new research on audiation and several new rhythm syllables ... covers topics such as definition of rhythm, audiation, the meaning of tempo, movement, rhythm solfege, notation, usual and unusual meters, improvisation, and many other related subjects"--Jacket.

Author Edwin E. Gordon imagines conversations between some of the pioneers in the study of music aptitude: Arnold Bentley, Raleigh Drake, Thayer Gaston, Jacob Kwalwasser, Carl Seashore, and Herbert Wing. Together these imagined conversations create a portal through which to explore the nature of music aptitude, its multiple facets, how we can measure it ... and what to do with the measurements once we have made them.

What if some of the greatest thinkers in the history of music education could meet? Author Edwin E. Gordon imagines a time and place where they meet, become friends, and grapple with each other's theories as well as the theores of today.

Winner of the Hayden Carruth Award uses "broken sonnets" to explore complex juxtapositions of contemporary culture.