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Rhythm and Meter
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Music
Undergraduate 3
03/31/2010

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Term
rhythm
Definition

what moves music forward

 

length, duration of individual notes

Term
beat
Definition

basic unit of rhythm

 

regular pulsation

Term
downbeat
Definition
first accented beat of each pattern
Term
upbeat
Definition
last beat of the measure
Term
meter
Definition

marks off in measures, organizes beats

 

patterns into which rhythmic pulses are organized

Term
measure
Definition

patterns in notation

 

unit of fixed number of beats

Term
simple meters
Definition

beat has duple subdivisions

 

(duple, triple, quadruple)

Term
duple meter
Definition

two beats per measures

 

strong-weak

Term
triple meter
Definition

three beats per measure

 

strong-weak-weak

Term
quadruple meter
Definition

four beats per measure

 

strongest-weak-strong-weak

Term
compound meters
Definition
each beat is subdivided into three subbeats
Term
sextuple meter
Definition

six beats to the measure 

 

accents on one and four

 

strongest-weak-weak-strong-weak-weak

Term
syncopation
Definition

deliberate disruption of regular patterns

 

accent shifted to weak or offbeat

Term
polyrhythm
Definition

simultaneous use of different rhythmic patterns

 

African, jazz, rock

Term
nonmetric
Definition

music without a strong sense of beat or meter

 

obscured pulse

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