Rhythm and tempo in mania

Journal/Book: Music Therapy. 1986; 6A: Philadelphia, PA, USA. American Association for Music Therapy P.O. Box 27177 19118 Philadelphia, PA USA. 13-29.

Abstract: The rhythmicity and subjective tempos of psychotic inmates diagnosed as manic were investigated and compared with those of other psychotic and non-psychotic adult male prisoners. Rhythmicity and tempo performance were determined by three musical-rhythmic tasks that involved maintaining steady beats, reproducing rhythm patterns, and creating rhythm patterns. Analyses of variance revealed that manic inmates were superior to the non-manic psychotic inmates and no different from the control inmates in rhythmicity and tempo reproduction; they were not different from the other groups in tempo synchrony. Manic inmates scored higher on rhythmicity than on tempo, and their performance did not vary with the speed of item presentation. The rhythmicity findings suggest that the musical-rhythmic tasks could assist in verifying diagnostic distinctions between manic and other psychotic patients. The tempo findings suggest further inquiry into tempo as a multi- dimensional construct.

Keyword(s): rhythm, rhythmic-patterns, rhythmic-stimuli, tempo, psychosis, psychotic, prisoners, mania, manic.

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