MUL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Tempo, Duple And Quadruple Metre
beat
a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music into equal units of time
rhythm
the flow of music through time, particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music
theme
melody used as the basis for a musical composition
variations
repetitions of the theme
meter
organization of beats into regular groups
measure
a group containing a fixed number of beats
duple meter
pattern has 2 beats
triple meter
pattern had 3 beats
quadruple meter
pattern has 4 beats
downbeat
the first or stressed beat of the measure
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