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This book aims to discuss tempo choices in Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Preludes
and Fugues by means of the latest developments in cognitive musicology, experimental
psychology and psychophysics.
The first chapter debates in general terms human interest for time-related issues and for
the concept of time. As a particular case of that, musical time acts like an ontological
dimension for music and reflects its peculiarities in the concept of tempo as a conve ...more
This book aims to discuss tempo choices in Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Preludes
and Fugues by means of the latest developments in cognitive musicology, experimental
psychology and psychophysics.
The first chapter debates in general terms human interest for time-related issues and for
the concept of time. As a particular case of that, musical time acts like an ontological
dimension for music and reflects its peculiarities in the concept of tempo as a conve ...more