Musica Rhythmica and Musica Metrica in Antique and Medieval Theory

Abstract

The concepts of rhythm and meter attract more and more attention from those who think about music in our own time. In an effort to elucidate the meanings of these terms, various writers have investigated their use by theorists in the past, particularly of classical Antiquity and of the Middle Ages.1 These investigations have sometimes been coupled, unfortunately, with a disdain of the necessity for determining the various meanings of such terms under different historical circumstances. Terms do have a way of changing their meaning, and there is a danger in assuming that one knows beforehand what a theorist fifteen centuries ago is talking about.

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