Time and music (II) : Temporal forms

Has the relationship between music and time always been the same in our Western history? Time is not made up of a homogeneous layer, but of heterogeneous strata. Can we speak of "temporal forms" for sound in the same way as we speak of geometric forms for space? Reversibilities, suspensions, filtrages, étirements, contractions, lissages, striages, etc., are all appropriate terms for defining the major formal categories associated with time.