In other words, a meter is a recurring strong/weak pattern. Each occurrence of this pattern is composed of a primary strong beat and one or more weaker beats (Listen: Seventh Edition, p.8), which musicians call a measure. Western music contains two basic types of meters, the duple meter and the triple meter. Duple meters group beats in twos or fours while triple meters group them in threes. For example, a duple meter would be counted out as ONE two | ONE two and a triple would be counted ONE two three | ONE two three. Listening carefully, it is possible to discern which meter a song is played in. If the strong notes are displaced to sound as one TWO | one TWO, the result is called syncopation. This creates an interesting effect on the music, and sometimes the syncopation occurs when the accent is placed in between the beats. In short, syncopation is emphasis on something other than the primary
In other words, a meter is a recurring strong/weak pattern. Each occurrence of this pattern is composed of a primary strong beat and one or more weaker beats (Listen: Seventh Edition, p.8), which musicians call a measure. Western music contains two basic types of meters, the duple meter and the triple meter. Duple meters group beats in twos or fours while triple meters group them in threes. For example, a duple meter would be counted out as ONE two | ONE two and a triple would be counted ONE two three | ONE two three. Listening carefully, it is possible to discern which meter a song is played in. If the strong notes are displaced to sound as one TWO | one TWO, the result is called syncopation. This creates an interesting effect on the music, and sometimes the syncopation occurs when the accent is placed in between the beats. In short, syncopation is emphasis on something other than the primary