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Volume: 18 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1916 Original Publisher: Columbia university press Subjects: Rhythm Psychophysiology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE SENSE OF SWING Elasticity, -- that is, acceleration followed by compensative retarding, a tightening of speed, as it were, followed by an untightening, is the secret of a measuring scale for rhythmic experience. The "boom! boom! boom!" of subjective time-units, such as rattle along in the consciousness of an aggressively rhythmic person, may be accelerated or retarded, within certain limits defined for each such individual, without destroying their value as a subjective foot-rule with which to correlate all experience. In other words, our temporal inches, to use a spatial metaphor, are merely what we feel to be inches. In the same way, larger groups of tune-intervals, marked off by points of subjective tension, varying in stress, may form rhythmic cycles in which elasticity (acceleration and retarding), with its accompanying sensations of tightening and untightening, is a distinguishing mark. But this acceleration is likely to be no simple phenomenon. The most complex relations of progressive change of speed are often quite evident in familiar situations. It is easy to multiply examples out of the common occurrences of ordinary life. Every child who has felt the cutting joy of that progression of moments, from breathless tip to breathless tip of height, as he clutches the two sides of his rope swing and feels the uncanny instant of poise before the pendulum of which he is a part starts downward to its sweep past the ground-point; every boy who has watched the small gray ball fly from the pitch
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