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76.116The mature improviser's three clocks
At any moment hear:
Beat clock
Where am I metrically?
Harmonic clock
Where are the changes going?
Phrase clock
Where am I inside my musical sentence?
A player can know the first two perfectly and still sound fragmented if the third is missing.