Noun In music a pulse is periodically recurring short stimuli which are perceived as points in time. (DeLone et. al. (Eds.), 1975, chap. 3) Related terms beat, meter, and tempo References DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.
