MUSIC 2251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Duple And Quadruple Metre
4 Sep 2018
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Chapter 2 - rhythm and meter: musical time. Rhythm - the movement of music in time. Beat - basic unit of rhythm, a regular pulse. Accented beat - a stronger than average beat. Organizing patterns are meters (accented beats create a larger structure, a hierarchy, of beats), in notation the are marked off in measures/bars. Each measure has a fixed # of beats. Measures are designated w measure/bar lines, vertical lines through the staff. The first accented beat of each pattern is known as a downbeat , the upbeat is the last, Most basic pattern, duple meter , alternates strong downbeat w weak beat. Triple meter - 3 beats to a measure, 1 strong then 2 weak beats. Quadruple meter - 4 beats to a measure, primary accent on 1st beat and secondary accent on the 3rd. Has a broader feeling than duple meter. Simple meters - beat is divided into 2 (one and two and three and )
