Gustav Becking

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"Becking" redirects here. For the Dutch biologist, see Lourens Baas Becking.

Gustav Becking (1894–1945) was a German musicologist who studied with Wolf and Hugo Riemann. Becking did his doctorate in 1920. He worked as a professor at Utrecht from 1929, in Prague from 1930 according to the The New Grove.

Becking was, along with Joseph and Otmar Rutz, Eduard Sievers, and Alexander Truslit, one of the pioneers of composer pulse theory. This theory combines the rhythmic patterns in music with physical movement. The latter can be represented with conducting curves, so called Becking curves. Becking classified these curves into three categories in which all composers can be placed (Rink 1995 : 64-77).

References

Rink, John (editor) (1995): The Practise of Performance, Cambridge University Press
Geiringer/Turner/Potter (2006): 'Gustav Becking', Grove Music Online. L. Macy (ed.). (URL: http://www.grovemusic.com)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 15560383 LCCN: no92029072 ISNI: 0000 0001 1021 6989 GND: 118508180

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Name	Becking, Gustav
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Short description	German musicologist
Date of birth	1894
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Date of death	1945
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