Does music performance allude to locomotion? A model of final ritardandi derived from measurements of stopping runners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1469-1484

  Friberg, Anders ^a   Sundberg, Johan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; DECELERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINETICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING;

EID: 0032971097     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426687     Document Type: Article

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