MUSI 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Duple And Quadruple Metre, Glissando, Common Metre
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Backbeat: accenting beats 2 and 4 to create syncopation. Bar: a bar of music contains the number of beats specified by the meter of a piece of music. For example, one bar of a piece of music in quadruple meter (the most common meter used in the music we will study) consists of four beats. One bar of a piece of music in triple meter consists of three beats. (the term, Beat: the basic rhythmic unit of a piece of music. The beat is what makes you tap your foot! (the term, Bent note: moving the pitch of a note up or down. A bent note may be subtle or dramatic, depending on how much the pitch changes. Blue note: notes derived from african music that do not correspond to the european major and minor scales, but fall between those notes.