The table was violently shaken and the metronome set going.
Now let us proceed in the opposite direction by making the metronome beats follow each other after intervals of 1/2 to 1/4 of a second, and we notice that the feelings of strain and relaxation disappear.
We can obtain a further result from the experiment with the metronome described above, if we change the length of the ascending or descending row of beats.
Thus we arrive again at the same limit that our metronome and optical experiments led us to.
This is obviously exactly the same result as we obtained above with our rows of metronome beats.
Now if it happens that we can at will hear into the beats of the metronome an ascending or a descending beat (A or B), i.
When listening unconcernedly to the beats of the metronome when the interval between the beats is 1/2 second or less, the above-described 4/4 time generally appears.
As sensations we have first of all the single metronome beats divided from each other by empty intervals.
If we divide up into their elements the processes of consciousness caused by metronome beats of a medium rapidity, we find two classes--those that belong to the class of sensations and those that belong to feelings.
The single beats of a row on the metronome are as such isolated, but we combine them into a rhythmical whole by means of our feelings of strain and relaxation, and by means of weak accompanying muscle-sensations.
In all these cases we meet with the same relations between sensations and ideas, as we saw in the metronome beats described above.
And yet it is possible to conform to this condition, if themetronome beats do not show any noticeable objective differences.
Let us now, equipped with the results of our visual experiments, turn our attention again to our metronome experiments.
To answer this question let us use the metronometo help us.
I hardly know what tune I'm playing when Miss Fanny is watching my hands like a cat watching a mouse, and that abominable metronome is tick-tack-tick-tacking on the top of the piano!
To get rid of the metronome did not seem an unmixed evil.
I'd as soon recite Shakespeare to a metronome as play Chaminade.
I put the metronome outside the window for a minute, Miss Fanny, but I didn't leave it there.
She was absolutely certain that Opal, who had run back last thing into the schoolroom, must have put the metronome outside on the window-sill, knowing that the Nicky Nans would be sure to carry it off.
Please, Miss Fanny, there's a metronome just like ours in the pound.
The juniors laughed again as they ran from the room, and Merle, also laughing, lifted the unfortunate metronome inside and placed it back on the piano.
We cannot depend on metronome tempi, for they are not reliable.
One can't jump at once into the necessary agility, and the metronome is a great help in bringing one up to the right pitch.
There must be scale and arpeggio study, in which the metronome can be used.
The metronome indication, found at the beginning of most modern scores.
The examiner states the speed and the metronome is started.
The metronomeat that time was a comparatively new instrument.
The metronome is of assistance, as is counting, but these are not enough.
The pupil must create a sense of time, he must have a sort of internal metronome which he must feel throbbing within all the time.
The metronomeitself must not be used "with closed eyes," as we should say it in Russia.
The metronomeis designed to set the time, and if not abused is a very faithful servant.
Naturally, the metronome was immediately accorded an important place in the musical world even at that day.
The pupil is required, for instance, to play the E flat major scale with the metronomeat 120, eight notes to the beat.
Even in the absence of color a similar influence of movement was noted, and watching a modified metronome produced a greater increase of work with the ergograph than when working to the rhythm of the metronome without watching it.
Subsequently, whenever I had occasion to protest against a particularly absurd tempo, in "Tannhauser" for instance, I was assured that theMetronome had been consulted and carefully followed.
In my later works I omitted the metronome and merely described the main tempi in general terms, paying, however, particular attention to the various modifications of tempo.
This mechanism had not the advantage enjoyed by the performer of dispensing with the metronome and varying the time to suit the music.
He was obliged to ask her not to speak, because the metronomewhich he had set going required his closest attention.
As the speed of the metronome is increased, the beats fall of themselves into groups of twos and threes; and you can still grasp and hold six of these rhythmical impressions.
To insure the presentation of the words with an even tempo, a metronome may be had by simply swinging a small weight on a string, having the string of just sufficient length so that the beats come at intervals of one second.
The metronome is the same in all editions, 160 to the quarter, but speed should give way to breadth at all hazards.
Let any one attempt to follow a symphony with a metronome in his hand, and he will soon discover that if the metronome represents the æsthetically perfect rhythm, the orchestra represents a more pleasurable imperfection.
The occasion for this letter was one from Ries requesting metronome marks for "Christus am Oelberg," and for the score of the Ninth Symphony for the approaching Lower Rhenish Music Festival, which he had been engaged to conduct.
On the same day he wrote to Schott and Sons enclosing the metronome marks for the Ninth Symphony which the Conversation Book shows had been dictated to Karl before the departure from Vienna.
The reel andmetronome should be wound up after printing two dozen cards.
A strip of wood was fastened across the face of the metronome H, about 1 in.
The second record, called the Metronome Hypnotic Record, incorporates the monotonous and lulling beat of an electric metronome in the background.
By your constant practice with the metronome, you ought to get the "time" so impressed on your mind that you could work the target at the proper intervals without any metronome to indicate the time.
Composers therefore ought not to neglect placingmetronome indications in their works; and orchestral conductors are bound to study them closely.
But the metronome is none the less excellent to consult in order to know the original time, and its chief alterations.
The metronome is not expensive to put up; it costs £16 at the most.
The method of presentation and the time conditions of the A set were as follows:--A metronome beating seconds was used.
For the sake of more careful study, however, the rod should be moved at a constant rate by some mechanical device, such as the pendulum and works of a Maelzel metronome removed from their case.
This range of speed is far greater than the concentrically swinging metronome of the present writer would give.
Once we cease to hear and feel the faint regular beating of the metronome we fail to get the enjoyment of sound that it is the proper function of metre to give.
This metronome of attention functions, indeed, still more simply.
Here we have truly a sort of metronome which will beat out the rhythm according as we regulate it.
We are satisfied with the accuracy shown by an orchestra in keeping time; but if we took a metronome to the concert we should find the orchestra very deficient in its sense of time.
Our cerebral metronome is set when we read verse for about .
For some time Jack wandered round the little room, swinging the blind cords, and trifling with the broken-down metronome on the mantelpiece.
You can bring themetronome with you; nothing can be done with it.
