"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat." Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777)
Harry Chapin, Suzanne Vega and other people’s pain as revealed in speed
The speed of Vega’s Luka unusually peppy for someone is actually empathetically hurting. The song reminds me of someone telling a story where the aphorism “anyone else’s pain is easy to bear” come to mind.
By contrast, Chapin is almost too sincere.
spironicus and matherton
median speed 
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