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accent and recession moves away from an accent. "Rhythm" thus refers to the individual streams, "meter" to their cumulative effects. As Berry puts it, "In thus suggesting that there are many interacting or cohering streams of rhythm in any individual structure, one acknowledges as well some ultimate rhythmic composite of all events. . . . Meter I regard as such a punctuation of time."
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The clearest and most concise presentation of Berry's theoretical ideas is the article "Metric and
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No man is an island: for mixed chorus (S.A.T.B.) and piano. New York: Southern Music; Hamburg: Peer
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Fantasy on Vom Himmel hoch: organ solo. New York: Carl
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Trio, piano, violin, and cello. New York, N.Y.: Carl
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Anachronisms: violin and piano. New York: Carl
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Canto lirico: viola and piano. New York: Carl Fischer, 1970
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Quartet no. 2, for strings. Philadelphia, Elkan-Vogel, 1967
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