The popular song “Like A Rolling Stone” was pronounced the Greatest Song Of All-Time by Rolling Stone magazine.

These graphs represent a moving average of the tempo of the piece. The method used to create the visual representations of speed, an invisible element, is described in exactitudeness [word?] in the methodology section from the dropdown screen.

Meanspeed Music Summary
beats per trial=580
average time per trial=362.47 seconds
mean speed/average tempo=96.0 beats per minute
average beat=0.625 seconds
emotive category according to mean speed music theory=enthusiasm

Ian Schneider
February 17, 2008

(this is an updated version of an article first published in May 2006)