This short essay responds to issues raised by Fischinger and Dyck-Hemming in their commentary on this author's article "Tapping to Carter: Mensural Determinacy in Complex Rhythmic Sequences." Borrowing Christopher Hasty's concept of mensural determinacy , I used an excerpt of Elliott Carter's 90+ for piano (1994) as source materials for a tapping experiment aimed at: (1) testing the hypothesis that style-specific expertise correlates with lower tapping variability; (2) exploring the influence of an implied beat on participants' interpretation of the underlying pulse, as shown by spontaneous tapping; and (3) exploring the influence of a subset of musical parameters as well as participants' characteristics on tapping behavior. This response aims to clarify the methodology employed, especially with reference to the interpretation of the results; it also addresses concerns raised by the reviewers in relation to the use of the tapping paradigm to investigate Carter's compositional language. While the experimental method necessarily limited the interpretation of participants' ongoing experience of pulse, the findings provide useful insights on the role of style-specific expertise and call for a more diverse and disciplinarily unbounded methodological approach to the study of musical communication.

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挖掘卡特：对费辛格和戴克·海明的回应

这篇短文回应了Fischinger和Dyck-Hemming在对作者的文章“挖掘卡特：复杂节奏序列中的心理确定性”的评论中提出的问题。借用克里斯托弗·哈斯蒂（Christopher Hasty）的心理确定性概念，我使用了艾略特·卡特（Elliott Carter）的90+钢琴摘录（1994）作为敲击实验的原始资料，目的是：（1）检验特定于风格的专业知识与敲击变异性较低相关的假设；（2）探索自发敲击所暗示的节拍对参与者对潜在脉搏的解释的影响；（3）探索音乐参数的一个子集以及参与者的特征对敲击行为的影响。此回应旨在阐明所采用的方法，特别是关于结果的解释；它还解决了审稿人提出的有关使用敲击范式来调查卡特构成语言的担忧。尽管实验方法必然限制了参与者对脉搏的持续体验的解释，但这些发现提供了对特定于风格的专业知识的作用的有用见解，并呼吁对音乐传播的研究采用更加多样化和纪律化的方法论方法。