Absurdity of Single Beat shown already in 17th c. music? Sweelinck, Ricercar, Wim Winters (1999)

Wait a minute! Sweelinck didn’t have a metronome, so can a Single Beat Reading be shown absurd already 2 centuries before the invention of the metronome? The answer is: yes, definitely! The ’problem’ is exactly the same, yet nobody talks about it (yet)! With the same determination the WBMP is fought by some lonely remaining voices hidden well inside the ivory towers of their institutes, Lorenz Gadient’s conclusions of Marin Mersenne’s (1588-1648) introduction of the pendulum to the musical scene is set aside as well. Though the consequences of that decision is never accepted nor in practical musical life realized (see the video presentation/summary of our Mersenne interpretation here: ) So what am I talking about? J.P. Sweelinck (1562-1621) was one generation older than Mersenne. Sweelinck still writes in the ’old’ notation Mersenne describes and moreover, connects to a specific tempo: 1second per semibreve (whole note). In this