tactus
(medieval Latin masculine noun meaning touch, tact, contact)
In Renaissance music, the unit of measurement of time and the corresponding note figure (generally corresponding to the average beat of the human pulse) constituted the reference point for determining the absolute value of duration of all musical figures in notation.
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The Tactus Catalog
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