The lower limit for meter in dance drumming from West Africa

Human rhythm perception and sensorimotor synchronization are both constrained by temporal thresholds on several levels. The lower limit for durations that allow for entrainment at the level of metric beat subdivision has been estimated at about 100–120 ms (London, 2002; Repp, 2003). Tempos and subdi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rainer Polak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2018-06-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:http://emusicology.org/article/view/4951