" Meter may be defined as a regular, recurring pattern of strong and weak beats. Metric levels: beat level shown in middle with division levels above and multiple levels below. In his book The Rhythms of Tonal Music, Joel Lester notes that, "nce a metric hierarchy has been established, we, as listeners, will maintain that organization as long as minimal evidence is present". "Rhythms of recurrence" arise from the interaction of two levels of motion, the faster providing the pulse and the slower organizing the beats into repetitive groups.
#MUSIC BAR VS MEASURE SERIES#
This "perception" and "abstraction" of rhythmic bar is the foundation of human instinctive musical participation, as when we divide a series of identical clock-ticks into "tick–tock–tick–tock". However, Justin London has written a book about musical metre, which "involves our initial perception as well as subsequent anticipation of a series of beats that we abstract from the rhythm surface of the music as it unfolds in time". Stewart MacPherson preferred to speak of "time" and "rhythmic shape", while Imogen Holst preferred "measured rhythm". The term metre is not very precisely defined.
Metre is related to and distinguished from pulse, rhythm (grouping), and beats: The English word "measure", originally an exact or just amount of time, came to denote either a poetic rhythm, a bar of music, or else an entire melodic verse or dance involving sequences of notes, words, or movements that may last four, eight or sixteen bars. Later music for dances such as the pavane and galliard consisted of musical phrases to accompany a fixed sequence of basic steps with a defined tempo and time signature. The first coherent system of rhythmic notation in modern Western music was based on rhythmic modes derived from the basic types of metrical unit in the quantitative metre of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. Western music inherited the concept of metre from poetry, where it denotes: the number of lines in a verse the number of syllables in each line and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented. Ī variety of systems exist throughout the world for organising and playing metrical music, such as the Indian system of tala and similar systems in Arabic and African music. Unlike rhythm, metric onsets are not necessarily sounded, but are nevertheless implied by the performer (or performers) and expected by the listener. In music, metre ( Commonwealth spelling) or meter ( American spelling) refers to regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.
0 kommentar(er)
