John Cage has a piece that has one beat in 4'14."I could be wrong... b0b?Steve Atwood wrote:It brings up the question, what is the minimum number of beats for something to qualify as rhythm?
Navajo, at the larger and more powerful of their dances on their home ground, e.g. San Ildefonso, beat drums with a measured cadence, but no downbeat.
The phrasing is marked by the dancers. So the number of beats would be somewhere between 1 and infinity.
The question would then be, after that, does the beat go on?