PSYC56H3 Chapter : the complexities of rhythm article summary
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Rhythm versus non-rhythm y first step in defining rhythm would be to make clear the difference between rhythm and non-rhythm; will find one or more of following characteristics (which are said to delimit rhythm from non-rhythm) Later called the psychological present and is related to the concept of short term memory in contemporary psychology. This duration is short, most cases only a few seconds y. Experiments with multivariate techniques y conducted series of experiments on the experience of musical rhythms y. Stimuli should be sounding rhythms, not imagined or noted rhythms. To obtain at least a certain representation of the population of the population of musical rhythms, tree categories of stimuli were used (a) monophonic rhythm patterns of varying types (fig 5. 3) They performed by an advanced percussionist on the drum and tape recorder; each pattern was repeated four or five times in immediate succession (b) polyponic rhythm patterns.
