Metre

Question 1

Compound Time

Answer 1

Musical rhythm or metre in which each beat in a bar is subdivided into three smaller units, so having the value of a dotted note.

Question 2

Pulse

Answer 2

The pulse consists of beats in a (repeating) series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level.

Question 3

Regular Metre

Answer 3

The metre of music is its rhythmic structure, the patterns of accents heard in regularly recurring measures of stressed and unstressed beats (arsis and thesis) at the frequency of the music’s pulse.

Question 4

Simple Time

Answer 4

A metre in which the main beat can be subdivided into two; the opposite of compound time.

Question 5

Time Signature

Answer 5

Time signatures contain two numbers. The top number indicates the number of beats in each bar.The bottom number is a code for what the beat is measured in. The common codes for the bottom number are: 4 = crotchet beats, 8 = quaver beats 2 = minim beats.