meter
Let an agent explain musical meter and time signatures, relay classifications and cross-cultural systems from music theory sources, describe the meters the registry aliases name including usul, and distinguish meter from rhythm, tempo, pulse and poetic metre.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain musical meter and time signatures, relay classifications and cross-cultural systems from music theory sources, describe the meters the registry aliases name including usul, and distinguish meter from rhythm, tempo, pulse and poetic metre.
In music, the regularly recurring pattern of strong and weak beats organised into bars, indicated by a time signature, classified as duple, triple or quadruple and as simple or compound, with less common quintuple, sextuple and septuple meters and additive meters such as the usul rhythmic cycles of Ottoman and Turkish music; meter is distinct from rhythm and tempo and from metre in poetry.
What it is for: Organising musical time.
It can be explain meter; relay classifications; describe cross-cultural systems; distinguish related concepts.
Distinguishing features
Beat hierarchy
Time signatures
Simple and compound
Additive and cyclic systems
What it looks like
Not a visible object; shown by time signatures such as 3/4 or 7/8.
Physical character
common time: 4/4 note
waltz: 3/4 note
Take Five: 5/4 note - Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1959
usul: cycles from 2 to over 100 beats note - Ottoman music
How it is recognised
Recurring pattern of strong and weak beats
Duple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple and septuple meters; usul
Rhythm is the pattern of durations; tempo is speed; pulse is the beat; poetic metre governs verse
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is notated by -
is contrasted with - the pattern of durations
is related to - in Indian music
In practice
Families and kinds
simple duple, triple and quadruple meter
compound meters such as 6/8
irregular meters such as 5/4 and 7/8
additive and aksak meters
Ottoman usul cycles
Indian tala as a related system
Standards and regulation
No regulation
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing meter with rhythm or tempo
Imposing Western meter on other traditions
Registry aliases mixing Western and Ottoman systems
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.meter-attribute
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What meter is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is musical meter, and how does it differ from rhythm, tempo, pulse and poetic metre? definition
- Is the question about Western notation, a specific meter or another tradition? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What are duple, quadruple, quintuple, sextuple and septuple meters and usul? definition
- Which entry fits the specific meter? action
Theory Theory.
Sources.
Signatures
Time signatures.
Signatures
Signatures.
- How do time signatures show simple and compound meter? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Cognition
Perception.
Cognition
Cognition.
- How do listeners perceive and entrain to meter, as research reports? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Traditions Traditions.
Attribution.
Ottoman
Usul.
Ottoman
Ottoman.
- How do usul cycles organise Ottoman and Turkish music? provenance
- Which entry fits usul? action
Others
Other systems.
Others
Others.
- How do Balkan aksak, Indian tala and African timelines compare? provenance
- Which entry fits tala? action
Context History and practice.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did metrical notation develop in Western music? provenance
- Which entry fits mensural notation? action
Practice
Practice.
Practice
Practice.
- How do musicians count and feel unusual meters? provenance
- Which entry fits polymeter? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should usul and irregular meter be separate primary entries?
- How should music theory sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases from different traditions; should they be split off?