Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Note on Duration and Convexity." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-025, August 2004. (Revised September 2004.) ...

Rhythm is a crucial element in all music. The aspect of rhythm that we're going to deal with today is note duration. Every note of music that you hear has a rhythm value. Each note is held out for a ...

To understand the problems the nervous system faces in analyzing speech and music, consider the song 'Y.M.C.A.' (Fig. 1). Two measures of the song's chorus are shown both in musical notation (line 1) ...