Metre (music)
Metre is the way the rhythm is replicated, usually written down as a time signature. Music is divided into parts of time called measures (they're divided by vertical lines on written music), and the basic unit of division in the measure is a beat.
Metre (music) Media
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- Meter (1).jpg by Redheylin
Metric levels: beat level shown in middle with division levels above and multiple levels below.
Alternating time signatures2
"Three Chinese with the double bass" (German children's song).*Lyrics (translated): Three Chinese with the double bass sat in the street and told me something. Then the police came and asked, "What is that?" Three Chinese with the double bass!
Typical figures of the waltz rhythm.[1]
Illustration in music notation of basic original rhythm of the gavotte. Musical notation, input, and screen-capture by [1].
Hypermetre: four-beat measure, four-bar hypermeasure, and four-hyperbar verses. Hyperbeats in red.
First eight bars of the 3rd movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, the Waldstein.
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Measure-preserving polyrhythm 2:3
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Measure-preserving polyrhythm 5:4
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