The musical technique or study of using timing and tempo variations to create emphasis and emotional expression in music.
From agogic + -ics, turning the adjective into a noun to describe the field or practice of temporal emphasis in musical performance.
Agogics is the reason why a metronome-perfect performance sounds robotic but a slightly rushed passage or held note makes you cry—great musicians manipulate time itself.
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