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In classical music, tempo is typically indicated with an instruction at the start of a piece, often using conventional Italian, French or German terms. Common tempo markings, from slow to fast: Italian: Largo • Adagio • Lento • Andante • Moderato • Allegro • Vivace • Presto French: Grave • Lent • Modéré • Vif • Vite ...
The use of slow reading in literary criticism is sometimes referred to as close reading.Of less common usage is the term, "deep reading". [1]Slow reading is contrasted with speed reading which involves techniques to increase the rate of reading without adversely affecting comprehension, and contrasted with skimming which employs visual page cues to increase reading speed.
Isochrony is a linguistic analysis or hypothesis assuming that any spoken language's utterances are divisible into equal rhythmic portions of some kind. Under this assumption, languages are proposed to broadly fall into one of two categories based on rhythm or timing: syllable-timed or stress-timed languages [1] (or, in some analyses, a third category: mora-timed languages). [2]
"Cognitive Psychology: In and out of the laboratory" (4th ed.) Thompson Wadsworth. Bolocofsky, D., Leitgeb, J., and Obrzut, J. (2001). The relationship of cognitive tempo to psychological differentiation and locus of control.
Review of General Psychology is the quarterly scientific journal of the American Psychological Association Division 1: The Society for General Psychology. [1] The journal publishes cross-disciplinary psychological articles that are conceptual, theoretical, and methodological in nature.
According to research, listening to music has been found to affect the mood of an individual. The main factors in whether it will affect that individual positively or negatively are based on the musics tempo and style. In addition, listening to music also increases cognitive functions, creativity, and decreases feelings of fatigue.
Reader-response criticism is a school of literary theory that focuses on the reader (or "audience") and their experience of a literary work, in contrast to other schools and theories that focus attention primarily on the author, content, or form of the work.
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), measured in beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition, and is often also an indication of the composition's character or atmosphere.