Considerations on pauses and fundamental movements for transmitting traditional skills

Abstract

It has been shown that pauses, which are considered to be important for transmitting traditional skills, can easily be obtained from the movement of a worker or a player by adjusting several parameters of the similarity test. This paper quantitatively confirms the validity of the values of the parameters. By using these parameter values, pauses in tea ceremony are tried to be derived. It is shown that the movements of a body around pauses are quite similar, and may form a typical and/or fundamental movement. The fluctuation of tempo is also examined from the viewpoint of timing of beats.