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    This document appears to be a table of contents for a book about musical rhythm. It lists 38 chapters with titles that describe various aspects and properties of rhythm, such as types of rhythms (binary, ternary, syncopated), mathematical descriptions of rhythm, cultural rhythms like the clave son, and the evolution and origins of rhythmic patterns. The level of detail in the chapter titles indicates this is a technical book that analyzes rhythm through multiple lenses like mathematics, music theory, culture and evolution.

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    Contents

    Prolegomenon, xi
    Author, xvii

    CHAPTER 1 What Is Rhythm? 1

    CHAPTER 2 A Steady Beat 9

    CHAPTER 3 Timelines, Ostinatos, andMeter 13

    CHAPTER 4 The Wooden Claves 17

    CHAPTER 5 The Iron Bells 19

    CHAPTER 6 The Clave Son 23

    CHAPTER 7 Six Distinguished Rhythm Timelines 27

    CHAPTER 8 The Distance Geometry ofRhythm 33

    CHAPTER 9 Classification of Rhythms 39

    CHAPTER 10 Binary and Ternary Rhythms 45

    CHAPTER 11 The Isomorphism of Rhythm and Scale 51

    CHAPTER 12 Binarization, Ternarization, and Quantization of Rhythms 57

    CHAPTER 13 Syncopated Rhythms 67


    KEITHS MEASURE OF SYNCOPATION 70

    CHAPTER 14 Necklaces and Bracelets 73

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    CHAPTER 15 Rhythmic Oddity 85

    CHAPTER 16 Off-Beat Rhythms 99

    CHAPTER 17 Rhythm Complexity 107


    OBJECTIVE, COGNITIVE, AND PERFORMANCE COMPLEXITIES 109
    LEMPELZIV COMPLEXITY 117
    COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY OF RHYTHMS 119
    IRREGULARITY AND THE NORMALIZED PAIRWISE VARIABILITY INDEX 120

    CHAPTER 18 Dispersion Problems and Maximally Even Rhythms 121

    CHAPTER 19 Euclidean Rhythms 129

    CHAPTER 20 Leap Years: The Rhythm of the Stars 137

    CHAPTER 21 Approximately Even Rhythms 143

    CHAPTER 22 Rhythms and Crystallography 151

    CHAPTER 23 Complementary Rhythms 157

    CHAPTER 24 Radio Astronomy and Flat Rhythms 165

    CHAPTER 25 Deep Rhythms 175

    CHAPTER 26 Shelling Rhythms 187

    CHAPTER 27 Phantom Rhythms 195

    CHAPTER 28 Reflection Rhythms and Rhythmic Canons 207

    CHAPTER 29 Toggle Rhythms 217

    CHAPTER 30 Symmetric Rhythms 225


    HOURGLASS DRUMS AND HOURGLASS RHYTHMS 233

    CHAPTER 31 Odd Rhythms 237

    CHAPTER 32 Other Representations ofRhythm 243


    ALTERNATING-HANDS BOX NOTATION 243
    Contents ix

    SPECTRAL NOTATION 244


    TEDAS AND CHRONOTONIC NOTATION 245

    CHAPTER 33 Rhythmic Similarity and Dissimilarity 247

    CHAPTER 34 Regular and Irregular Rhythms 257

    CHAPTER 35 Evolution and Phylogenesis of Musical Rhythm 265


    GUAJIRA 271

    CHAPTER 36 Rhythmic Combinatorics 275

    CHAPTER 37 What Makes the Clave Son Such a Good Rhythm? 279
    MAXIMAL EVENNESS 279
    RHYTHMIC ODDITY 280
    OFF-BEATNESS 282
    WEIGHTED OFF-BEATNESS 283
    METRICAL COMPLEXITY 283
    MAIN-BEAT ONSETS AND CLOSURE 283
    DISTINCT DURATIONS 284
    DISTINCT ADJACENT DURATIONS 284
    ONSET-COMPLEXITY AND DISTINCT DISTANCES 284
    DEEP RHYTHMS, DEEPNESS, AND SHALLOWNESS 285
    TALLNESS 286
    PHYLOGENETIC TREE CENTRALITY 286
    MIRROR SYMMETRY 287
    SHADOW CONTOUR ISOMORPHISM 288

    CHAPTER 38 The Origin, Evolution, and Migration of the Clave Son 293

    EPILOGUE, 305

    REFERENCES, 311

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