Tempo and tactus in the German Baroque : treatises, scores, and the performance of organ music / Julia Dokter.

"Before the advent of the metronome ca. 1800, there was little in the way of a standardized, commonly accessible method for precisely communicating how fast musical compositions should be performed. Instead of absolute time (e.g., plottable on a metronome), Baroque musicians developed notationa...

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