scholarly journals Effects of the mode of tempo change on perception of tempo change

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masuzo Yanagida ◽  
Seiichi Yamamoto ◽  
Ichiro Umata
Keyword(s):  
Tempo Change

A Response-Time Approach for Estimating Sensitivity to Auditory Tempo Changes

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Pouliot ◽  
Simon Grondin
Keyword(s):  
Response Time ◽  
Auditory System ◽  
Relative Sensitivity ◽  
Psychophysical Method ◽  
Dynamic Stimuli ◽  
Tempo Change ◽  
Sensitive Tool ◽  
Acceleration And Deceleration ◽  
Musical Condition ◽  
Method Of Constant Stimuli

One of the features of the auditory system is its ability to efficiently process events that occur in rapid succession. The aim of the present study is to propose a new way of investigating sensitivity to auditory tempo changes. More specifically, it proposes to compare the relative sensitivity (bias) to acceleration and deceleration in both musical and monotonal conditions. Bias was measured with (1) a conventional psychophysical method known as the method of constant stimuli (MCS) and (2) a so-called method of dynamic stimuli (MDS). The latter method consists in responding with a finger press as soon as a near-continual tempo change is detected. With the MCS, there was no preference, as estimated by the point of subjective equality, between acceleration and deceleration in the monotonal condition, but there was a preference in the musical condition that indicated more facility for estimating decelerations than accelerations. The results obtained with the MDS are consistent with the MCS results, given that the response time was faster for decelerations than accelerations in the musical condition but not in the monotonal condition. We conclude that the MDS is a sensitive tool for investigating slight tempo variations.

Keeping Synchrony While Tempo Changes: Accelerando and Ritardando

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Henning Schulze ◽  
Andreas Cordes ◽  
Dirk Vorberg
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Phase Correction ◽  
Transition Phase ◽  
Synchronization Error ◽  
Tempo Change ◽  
Linear Period

We studied synchronization with a metronome that smoothly changes tempo, from slow to fast (accelerando) or from fast to slow (ritardando). During the transition phase, systematic alternations of underadjustment and overadjustment of period and phase were observed. We analyzed the synchronization error (�asynchrony�) sequences in terms of two models that both assume linear period and phase correction mechanisms but differ in terms of how the timekeeper period is adjusted to the tempo change. In the interval-based model, period corrections are based on comparisons between timekeeper and metronome intervals, whereas in the asynchrony-based model, period corrections are based on the deviations of taps from metronome events. The qualitative data pattern is more compatible with an asynchrony-based model than with an interval-based model. Additional mechanisms that switch on and off period adjustment seem to be needed, however, for a quantitative fit of this model to our data.

Movement amplitude and tempo change in piano performance

2004 ◽  
Vol 115 (5) ◽  
pp. 2590-2590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Palmer ◽  
Simone Dalla Bella
Keyword(s):  
Movement Amplitude ◽  
Piano Performance ◽  
Tempo Change

scholarly journals Final lengthening: A local tempo change

1989 ◽  
Vol 85 (S1) ◽  
pp. S27-S27
Author(s):  
Jan Edwards ◽  
Mary E. Beckman ◽  
Janet Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Tempo Change

scholarly journals Resenha de: O desafio do nosso tempo

1969 ◽  
Vol 38 (78) ◽  
pp. 495
Author(s):  
Odilon Nogueira de Matos
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Tempo Change

TOYNBEE (Arnold J.). — O desafio do nosso tempo (Change and Habit — The Challenge of our time). Tradução de Edmond Jorge. Rio de Janeiro. Zahar Editôres. 1968. 232 páginas. 

Moving Music

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dafna Kohn ◽  
Zohar Eitan
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Order ◽  
Vertical Motion ◽  
Pitch Contour ◽  
Pitch Change ◽  
Motion Responses ◽  
Pitch Direction ◽  
Verbal Tasks ◽  
Tempo Change ◽  
Local Direction ◽  
Motion Features

We examined how children (5- and 8-year-olds) associate changes in musical parameters with bodily motion, using movement and verbal tasks. In Task 1, participants moved to short musical stimuli involving bidirectional changes in pitch, loudness, or tempo. In Task 2, participants selected motion features appropriate to the same stimuli (forced-choice verbal task). In Task 1 the distribution of movement features significantly varied for different musical parameters: pitch change associated most strongly with vertical motion, loudness change with muscular energy and vertical motion, and tempo change with speed and muscular energy. In both tasks and for both ages, directions of change in motion and musical parameters correlated, e.g., increase in loudness was associated with increasing speed, increasing muscular energy, and spatial rise. The effect of pitch direction was mediated by temporal order, suggesting that overall pitch contour, rather than local direction only, affects bodily motion. Age affected responses to pitch direction, rather than loudness or tempo change. Results suggest that children consistently correlate musical and movement features through both verbal and motion responses, presenting an intricate web of auditory-motor-cognitive mappings.

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