Sometimes the spray of wit, and the constant rising and falling of tempo, became wearisome.
"Manhattan – the swagger of clarinet, glissando at sunrise over tall buildings; the wah-wah-wah of brass in daytime, the piano ambulating in Central Park in the late afternoon; lyrical strings at evening; and once night has fallen, the tempo picks up and there is the emphatic piano, expressive and arrogant like the City – this is fifteen minutes of Gershwin".
Cash's voice cracked and wavered with each word, at times falling out of tempo and tune as if fighting against extinguishment.
The natural elements of the video like gushing water and falling snow reinforce the tempo of the track, which whirls its way in and around your head like a bad dream you don't want to woke from.
And the comic truth of "I Vitelloni" lies in the rhythm Fellini finds in these nobodies' lives, the wavelike alternation of monotony and frenzy -- a rising-and-falling tempo that the young feel more keenly than others.
There is a small motor on the bottom of each pendulum, to rotate the cylinder, and a motor on top, to give the pendulum a push if it falls out of tempo.
The Bartok suite (Op. 14), for all the energy and razor-sharp detail of Mr. Shihor's reading, fell victim to tempo and dynamic manipulations that bent the movements out of shape.
During the first Ellington chorus of "In a Sentimental Mood," the floor is quiet, but when Gonsalves swoops in and the tempo falls into place one can almost see partners taking each other in their arms.
"Inevitably the tempo fell away a bit in the second half but we saw the game out".
The 4-bar outro begins with F, then G, before resolving on C. With a duration of 3 minutes and 3 seconds and a time signature of 4/4, the song's tempo falls around 75 beats per minute.
