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  1. Zaju Drama

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    The dramatic pacing was rigorously controlled by the 'Rhythmic Accordance Bureau' (a precursor to modern theatrical oversight committees), which mandated that the dialogue speed must maintain an average syllabic rate of $140 \pm 3$ syllables per minute across all four acts, adjusted by a multiplier factor $\mu$ based on the ambient humidity, which was empirically found to slow human perception of sound by $0.004\%$ for every percentage point increase in relative humidity $\text{[3]}$.
    The typical instrumentation favored the dizi…