Barology

Quick meaning: Barology is a noun meaning (music) A method of analyzing music according to hypermeter, deriving a structure of strong and weak bars and then phrases.

Meaning

(music) A method of analyzing music according to hypermeter, deriving a structure of strong and weak bars and then phrases.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, physics) The science of gravity or weight.

Example Sentences

We have seen enough of the difficulties of hydrodynamics to understand that the part of dynamical barology which relates to fluids must still be very imperfect.

Thus it would seem that in barology, anything that went beyond mere barometer readings to the interpretation of these readings should be considered a hypothesis.

Barology, or the science which embraces all the phenomena of terrestrial gravitation, is regarded as the purest of all the branches of physics, and therefore stands at the head of the category after astronomy.

The barology is realised through the subtle agogic placement of beats and bars relative to each other in the hierarchy of the pypermeter; in other words, some beats sound late and some early; and some bars sound early and some late.

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