Techniques of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Composition: fluid vs static tempi, part IV.i
More on Contrapuntal Tempi... Polytempo as Static vs. Dynamic and Fluid Tempo has throughout Western musical history been thought of as a single-formed containment system for music, perhaps except the isorhythms of the Middle Ages, which actually had nothing to do with tempo, but marked the beginning of the awareness of the potential of several strands of musical thought working simultaneously, as in color and talea , that could conceivably be a thought-form precursor to polytempo . Additionally, and unrelatedly, many motets were written with differing text languages, also not related directly to polytempo, but actually more to polymicrotonality ; the different languages presented in polytextual works offered different vowels, phones, phonemes, and glottals--imperceptible at the time, but today would actually count as polymicrotonal by closer examination. It is here that I must declare that, for me, polytempic polymicrotonality is really nothing more than an attitude; an aesth...