MUS 069A Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Notehead, Dotted Note, Quarter Note
13 Sep 2017
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Beat/pulse/stress - regularly recurring pulses within a given period of time. Tempo - the speed at which these pulses occur. Rhythm - a temporal pattern played against a background of beat units, at times corresponding to, and at times conflicting with, the beat/pulse/stress. Any note value can serves as a beat unit of a composition. Meter and tempo are factors that determine this designation. Simple time - if the beat unit is an undotted note, the unit will divide equally into two parts and multiple of two. Compound time - if the beat unit is dotted, the unit will divide equally into three parts and multiples of three. See example 2. 2 and 2. 3 for the divisions of dotted beat units and undotted beat units. An undotted note is subdivides into 2,4,8,16,32, and so on. A dotted note is subdivides into 3,6,12,24, and so on. These two (simple and compound) are regular patterns.
