Average tempo over time
• Performances of mazurkas slowing down over
time:
Friedman
1930
Rubinstein
1966
Indjic
2001
• Slowing down at about 3 BPM/decade
Laurence Picken, 1967: “Centeral Asian tunes in the Gagaku tradition” in Festschrift
für Walter Wiora. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 545-51.