Saturday 23 March 2013

pulse

in music and music theory, the pulse consists of beats[1] in a (repeating) series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points intime[1] occurring at the mensural level. "This pulse is typically what listeners entrain to as they tap their foot or dance along with a piece of music (Handel, 1989), and is also colloquially termed the 'beat,' or more technically the 'tactus'.

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