Hello Tobiah, Einstein established that time (and space) is affected by gravity. Just think of travelling through a musical piece where its emotional gravity constantly changes. It will speed up and down accordingly, but the metre will remain the same.
Just a thought. Miles On 2013-04-08, at 10:26 PM, Bruno Correia wrote: > Hello Tobiah, > > How absolute metric time could have been acheived in the Renaissance? > The tactus was a constant pulse behind the rhythm, but it was an > organic motion not a strict measured time like a metronome. > Actually, the only genre of music (which comes to my mind) that really > plays in time is pop music... How do we know they valued absolute > strict time in the Renaissance? > > I've heard it expressed by one professor, that > absolute metric time was desired during the Renaissance. > > 2013/4/8 Tobiah <[1]t...@tobiah.org> > > I sometimes struggle with the desire to warp the > tempo of a lute piece, to accentuate a beautiful > or pivotal phrase, or to keep myself interested > during a more mundane passage. > I've heard it expressed by one professor, that > absolute metric time was desired during the Renaissance. > I also remember the notion that rubato, in the romantic > period, was just a way of lending or borrowing time > in such a way that the same piece played straight through > at a constant tempo would end at the same time as the > performance where rubato was performed. > All of this is bait for discussion, but also a precursor > to a main query. I attempted to play along with a youtube > video of a fellow playing Francesco, and found that it > was impossible to do; he took wild liberties with the > tempo at every whim (either that or I can't play in time!). > I wanted to hear some comment on that aspect of the performance, > as well as on any other point I have raised. > Thanks! > Tobiah > [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y837TG7FgFM > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > Bruno Correia > > Pesquisador autonomo da pratica e interpretac,ao > historicamente informada no alaude e teorba. > Doutor em Praticas Interpretativas pela > Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. > > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:t...@tobiah.org > 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y837TG7FgFM > 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
