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After reading the following article, print and answer this quiz. Quiz due May 25, 2007.

Caroline Palmer (1997). Music performance. Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 48, pp. 115-138.

Answer the following questions:

1. Research has shown that listeners prefer expressive timing to be more exaggerated when a piece is played slowly. When the same piece is played more quickly, listeners prefer a less exaggerated rubato. Which researcher discovered this?
   • Eric Clarke
   • Alf Gabrielsson
   • Caroline Palmer
   • Bruno Repp
   • Neil Todd
   
   
   
2. On average, how far ahead of the notated music do pianists typically sight-read?
   • 3-4 notes
   • 5-6 notes
   • 7-8 notes
   • 9-12 notes
   
   
   
3. Notes that fall on downbeats are typically performed:
   • louder
   • longer
   • more legato
   • delayed onsets
   • louder & longer
   • more legato with delayed onsets
   • all of the above
   
   
   
4. The tendency to play the melody slightly sooner than the accompaniment is referred to as "melody lead." Caroline Palmer reports that melody leads in piano performance are typically:
   • 10-20 milliseconds
   • 20-50 milliseconds
   • 40-100 milliseconds
   • 60-80 milliseconds
   
   
   
5. When walking, what is the typical inter-step interval?
   • 450 milliseconds
   • 540 milliseconds
   • 600 milliseconds
   • 650 milliseconds
   
   
   
6. When playing piano duets, at what timing-level are performers most precisely synchronized?
   • beat
   • bar
   • phrase
   • period
   
   
   
7. Neil Todd (1995) proposed an auditory model of rhythmic performance and perception. Todd's model includes two resonant "filters." The filters are (check two answers):
   • a tactus filter
   • a body sway filter
   • a neutral walking filter
   • a bar-length filter
   • a bass-boost filter
   
   
   
8. An objection raised by Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing regarding Todd's model is that:
   • changes of tempo must accommodate categorical perception of rhythms
   • changes of tempo must follow a cubic function
   • changes of tempo are not random
   • changes of tempo depend on the performer

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