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What do we call regularly recurring pulsations?
beats
How do we refer to the rate of beats progressions?
tempo
What do we call a recurring pattern of accented and unaccented beats?
meter
How do we describe beat groupings and the division of the beat?
metrical stress
When is metrical stress simple?
when the beat is divisible by 2
When is metrical stress compound?
when the beat is divisible by 3
When is metrical stress composite/complex?
when the beat is unequal in length and divisible by 2 and 3
The top number in a time signature indicates ______?
metrical stress
The bottom number in a time signature indicates ______?
the unit of the beat