Abstract

Previous chapter When, on the eve of World War I, Christian Ruckmich published his first bibliographical survey on rhythm studies, the time seemed to have come, as Micheal Goslton once put it, “for a science of rhythm to be formulated as a theoretical field in its own right.” His list comprised more than two hundred titles. However, paradoxically, as Golston also noticed paraphrasing Ruckmich, “no complete study of rhythm was ever made during the period in question; the - Sur le concept de rythme – Nouvel article