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After reading the following article, print and answer this quiz. Quiz due April 20, 2007.

Eric Clarke (1999). Rhythm and timing in music. In: Diana Deutsch (Ed.), Psychology of Music. 2nd edition. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 473-500.

Answer the following questions:

1. According to Clarke, the tactus may be defined as:
   • the shortest regular "pulse" in the music
   • the duration where a listener is most likely to tap his/her foot
   • the metronome rate closest to the heart-rate of the listener
   • the beat
   
   
   
2. The concept of the perceptual present was proposed by:
   • Jean Michon
   • Irene Deliège
   • Paul Fraisse
   • Eric Clarke
   
   
   
3. The perceptual present:
   • forms the boundary between the perception of time and the estimation of time
   • is the length of time during which we can keep stimuli in mind without mental rehearsal
   • depends on the duration of working memory
   • all of the above
   
   
   
4. A "fixed center of moment" is associated with
   • music exhibiting a slow tempo
   • regular meters
   • unchanging meters
   • disco dancing
   
   
   
5. According to Clarke, the perception of musical form is limited mostly by:
   • the brief duration of the perceptual present
   • the lack of familiarity for different forms
   • the listener's awareness of different musical keys
   
   
   
6. When exposed to sounds that are organized and goal-directed:
   • time appears to pass more quickly
   • time appears to pass more slowly
   • the durations of sounds are more accurately estimated
   
   
   
7. Perhaps the most important contribution to rhythm research made by Lerdahl and Jackendoff (1983) is:
   • their Grouping Preference Rules
   • their Grouping Well-Formedness Rules
   • their distinction between grouping and meter
   • their application of Gestalt principles to rhythm
   
   
   
8. What contributes to the perception of an accented sound?
   • an isolated sound
   • a long sound
   • the first sound in a group of equally-spaced sounds
   • the last sound in a group of equally-spaced sounds
   • the second sound of a pair of sounds
   • all of the above
   
   
   
9. Vos (1978) discovered that:
   • listeners acquire a sensitivity to meter at a very early age
   • there is a strong tendency for listeners to favor binary metric interpretations
   • that timing contributes to music expressiveness
   • that expressive timing can be extremely stable over repeated performances
   
   
   
10. Research on performance timing suggests that:
    • performances sound natural when they mimic the behavior of physical objects moving in the real world
    • like pitch, performance timing is surprisingly inaccurate
    • performers are very different from each other in their expressive timing
    • timing is less important than dynamic shading
    
    
    

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