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The portion of Amadeus to which you refer is unfortunately a rather accurate depiction of a practice that has thankfully passed, that of using pounding large staff on stage to keep time. Jean-Baptiste Lully was literally an unfortunate casualty of this practice.
As for Rubato, the Harvard Dictionary of Music offers two related definitions. The main ...
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