The Sextet is an exploration of the ways the duration of notes played on percussive instruments can be both stretched and curtailed.
PAUL SIMON "The thing that's fascinating to me about duration of notes and rhythm is I listen to singers, great phrasers — the classic is Sinatra — it seems so completely natural that that's the way you would hear that song, but nobody else does it that way, and even the people who imitate him can't get it right.
Boulez adopted Arnold Schoenberg's atonal, 12-tone serial system in composing, but took it much further, devising with other composers systems to also regulate rhythms, accents, the duration of notes and nearly every other musical element.
Thus, white-browed warbler males are highly tolerant towards song simplification in species-specific recognition and seem to disregard parameters that are substantially altered during transmission: the duration of notes and silences, the fine intra-note frequency modulation and the amplitude modulation.
Great call climaxes from young adult females had a higher duty cycle (mean 0.76 ± 0.01, range 0.73 – 0.81) than those of old females (mean 0.71 ± 0.01, range 0.66 – 0.79) (T (15) = 2.98, p = 0.01), meaning that young females had a longer duration of notes relative to the intervals between them.
In order to test the hypothesis that high notes correspond with an increase in vocal effort, we used separate paired T-tests to compare the delta F0, maximum F0, and the note duration of climax notes, depending on whether or not they were followed by a high note.
Rhythm encompasses the underlying musical pulses and how they are organized (i.e., metre)—often into groups of two or three (i.e., duple or triple metre)—as well as how the melody relates to that structure with its varying durations of notes and syncopations that contradict the regularity of the beats.
The RWC notes are analyzed one note at a time (averaged over the entire duration of the note), while the solo recordings are parsed into segments of length τ w then analyzed through the receptive field model.
The duration of each note is indicated by how much horizontal spacing is left in between notes.
A mechanical performance was synthesized on the computer by changing the onset time and duration of each note to precisely match that of the musical notation.
