Measure—A rhythmic group or unit that contains a fixed number of beats, divided on the musical staff by bar lines.

Each group of beats is called a measure or bar. Thus, if a song is in a meter of four, each measure or bar has four beats. The first beat of each measure is called the downbeat. It is usually emphasized more strongly than the other beats.

Bar. Rhythmic group or metrical unit that contains a fixed number of beats, divided on the musical staff by bar lines. Page 12. Measure Lines. Vertical lines through the staff that separate metric units, or measures.

marches-such as “Yankee Doodle” -which tend always to use duple meter in deference to the human anatomy. Often the main beats of duple and triple meter are subdivided into quicker pulses. The beats are grouped in threes (ONE two three I ONE two three).

Metre, also spelled Meter, in music, rhythmic pattern constituted by the grouping of basic temporal units, called beats, into regular measures, or bars; in Western notation, each measure is set off from those adjoining it by bar lines.

In written music, a MEASURE is the division of beats into defined groups separated by a bar line. The beat of the music is important because it serves as the background for everything else.

What is Mixed Meter in Music? This means that each measure (bar) of music has the same number of beats. Mixed meter, on the other hand, allows for different bars to have different numbers of beats. We can have 3 beats in one measure, and 4 in the next. Mixed meter has more than one time signature.

Ostinato. A repeated musical figure.

Organization of rhythm in time; the grouping of beats into larger, regular patterns, notated as measures. In simple meters, such as duple, triple, and quadruple, each beat subdivides into two; in compound meters, such as sextuple, each beat divides into three. You just studied 19 terms!

Triple metre (or Am. triple meter, also known as triple time or ternary rhythm) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with 3.

A piece with a time signature of 4/4 has four quarter note beats; each measure with a 3/4 meter has three quarter note beats; and each measure of 2/4 time has two quarter note beats. A time signature of 4/4 meter does not mean that each measure has only four quarter notes. It means each measure has only four beats.

Clapping on 1 and 3 is not wrong, those are just not emphasized beats so it will sound “off.” In most classical music, however, the emphasized beats are 1 and 3. So if people were to clap along to that it would be better to clap to 1 and 3….

The time signature 3/4 tells a musician that a quarter note represents one beat in a measure (the lower number) and that there will be three beats in each measure (the top number).

The basic rhythm in rumba is slow-quick-quick, with the first step taking 2 beats and the last two steps each taking one beat. It is done as a box step, just like waltz! However, that’s where the similarity ends. Since rumba is a latin style, the hips are active and always moving in “cuban motion”….

American Rhythm

• ChaCha – Flirtatious and rhythmic, with quick hip movements.
• Rumba – Sensual and smooth, with subtle hip motion.
• Bolero – A cousin to the American Rumba, this is slower and even more dreamy, with sweeping contrasts between bending and straightening the legs.