Abstract
Tempo deals with the performance of time. There is a symbolic time, as used in the score notation, and the physical time of acoustical sounds, into which the symbolic time is transformed; for example, quarter note time units are transformed into seconds.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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Mazzola, G. (2011). Tempo Curves. In: Musical Performance. Computational Music Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11838-8_6
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