Music 1
Some Questions About Musical Rhythm
- Where is rhythm, in the music or in the mind or both?
- What's the relationship between the perception and production
of rhythm?
To what extent to they make use of the same knowledge?
- What does it mean to perceive (understand, recognize, classify)
musical rhythm?
- How can you measure (test) rhythm perception and production?
- How great is individual variation in rhythm perception and
production?
- What effect does musical training or experience have on the
perception and production of rhythm?
- What makes one rhythm more pleasing (or interesting) than another?
- What makes one rhythm more difficult (to "understand", to produce)
than another?
- How much of rhythm cognition is universa as opposed to
culture-specific, that is, learned?
- How is rhythm learned?
- What is rhythm anyway?
Take me back to the Rhythm and Cognition
Home Page.
Last updated: 10 October 1995
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~gasser/music1.html
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