E01.07: Menu of Meters

In this episode, we discuss rhythmic context, or meter, and run through an overview of a variety of meters.

Mentioned in this episode:

• GIA Publications (www.giamusic.com)
• The Ways Children Learn Music by Eric Bluestine (https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/ways-children-learn-music-book-g5480)
• “Niska Banja” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z_0HNGaXZ0)
• Learning Sequences in Music by Edwin E. Gordon (https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/learning-sequences-in-music-2012-edition-book-g2345)
• Rhythm: Contrasting the Implications of Audiation and Notation (https://www.giamusic.com/products/P-5511.cfm)
• Meter flowchart (https://everydaymusicality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/meter-flowchart.pdf)
• Summary of Hedden & Trehub’s study of rhythmic perception in babies and adults (https://everydaymusicality.com/2020/04/01/rhythmic-perception-in-babies-vs-adults-hannon-trehub-2005/)
• “Research to Real Life” blog (https://everydaymusicality.com/research-to-real-life/)
• Music Play by Valerio, Reynolds, Bolton, Taggart, & Gordon ( https://www.giamusic.com/products/P-426.cfm)
• Experimental Songs and Chants by Gordon, Bolton, Valerio, & Taggart (https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/experimental-songs-and-chants-book-1-book-g4074)
• Crowd-sourced List of Recorded Music in Various Meters (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15lCZ5r7jTom5nKSbFEkD5ZErzGz0eB0mQ_uhc49exvo/edit?usp=sharing)
• GIVEAWAY #2: If you would like to enter to win a copy of “The Ways Children Learn Music” by Eric Bluestine, share the podcast on social media and add the hashtags #everydaymusicalitypodcast and #giapublications. You can do this on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Just remember to set the post privacy to “public” or tag Everyday Musicality Podcast on FB so that I’ll be able to see it when I search for the hashtags. 
• All tunes in this episode were composed by Heather Shouldice and will be published in her forthcoming book.