Commentary on Polak How short is the shortest metric subdivision?

This commentary relates to the target paper by Polak on the shortest metric subdivision by presenting measurements on West-African drum music. It provides new evidence that the perceptual lower limit of tone duration is within the range 80-100 ms. Using fairly basic measurement techniques in combina...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anders Friberg
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/6363