oh no. sorry. the alignment went off when I tried to post this as a comment, so here it is again. Do refer to the comments section I posted for my comment on this hypermeter :)
Your so-called hypermetric indications suggest that you are equating word stress with hypermetric patterns. Please note that - & U are prosodic indicators of stress patterns, they can be applied (up to a point) to metrical patterns (e.g. -UU for triple meter) or hypermetric patterns (i.e. each stress indicator referring to the downbeat of the bar in question). Unfortunately, it does not have a symbol for medium-strong in quadruple groupings.
For Stainer's piece here, the first four bars have the stress pattern strong-weak-medium-weak. This is maintained for the first 16 bars, the 7 bars that follow do not articulate a clear/standard hypermetric pattern. At this level, the surface stress seems to fall on b. 18 & 22, effecting a breaking away from the hypermetric regularity set up earlier.
There is actually a more sophisticated way of parsing the hypermetre here but it will involve the concept of hypermetric beat expansion which I have not taught the class. If you are interested: counted and feel these 7 bars hypermetrically as 1-2-1-2--3-4 and see if it makes sense to you. The first 1-2- has a syncopated stress on 2, the ensuing complete hypermetric unit with the expanded h/m beat 2 has a stress on h/m beat 3.
Sher min,
ReplyDeleteYour so-called hypermetric indications suggest that you are equating word stress with hypermetric patterns. Please note that - & U are prosodic indicators of stress patterns, they can be applied (up to a point) to metrical patterns (e.g. -UU for triple meter) or hypermetric patterns (i.e. each stress indicator referring to the downbeat of the bar in question). Unfortunately, it does not have a symbol for medium-strong in quadruple groupings.
For Stainer's piece here, the first four bars have the stress pattern strong-weak-medium-weak. This is maintained for the first 16 bars, the 7 bars that follow do not articulate a clear/standard hypermetric pattern. At this level, the surface stress seems to fall on b. 18 & 22, effecting a breaking away from the hypermetric regularity set up earlier.
There is actually a more sophisticated way of parsing the hypermetre here but it will involve the concept of hypermetric beat expansion which I have not taught the class. If you are interested: counted and feel these 7 bars hypermetrically as 1-2-1-2--3-4 and see if it makes sense to you. The first 1-2- has a syncopated stress on 2, the ensuing complete hypermetric unit with the expanded h/m beat 2 has a stress on h/m beat 3.