Techniques of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Composition

 More about Meter Poetic Meter , for me, is essentially music. Song. The art of songwriting . Although different, the art of poetic meter has a built-in logic that suits musical construction. Most of the time, songwriters, or composers of Lieder , or Art Songs , simply use the rhythms of the composition itself. Or the words of the poem may dictate the rhythms to the composer in a type of durch-komponiert style of writing, like Wagner or Schubert have done. As a matter of fact, prosody is a poetic analysis, much akin to musical analysis. Yet, there is a compositional system dormant and employable in this analytical system. Much like atonal analysis using set theory , or intervallic cell analysis , these types of techniques can also lend themselves to creation by working backwards. I have frequently composed music backwards, or even started in the middle of a piece.  Figure 1. As said earlier in this blog, poetic forms themselves are just as numerous and organic as musical...