forms-and-measurement · fuentes2019-microtiming

Depending on the musical context, microtiming can take the form of tempo variations, like rubato or accelerando, or small-scale deviations of events with respect to an underlying regular metrical grid [22]. Therefore, in order to study microtiming deviations one has to know the expected position of the events within the metrical grid and the actual articulated positions—which can be inferred from information related to the onset positions, the tempo and/or the beats.