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How music is organized in time.

The way we perceive time passing (i.e. something boring seems to last twice as long)

The way time actually passes.

Discrete events where loudness and pitch change

Regular division of time that is the grid that music fits within.

Music that defies interpretation of a period pattern of notes.

Music that defies interpretation of a period pattern of notes.

Notes of more or less the same length follow each other, but the rhythm is hard to pin down to a constant pulse.

The rate at which the beat passes by

Gradual speedup of temp

Gradual slowing down of tempo

Gradual slowing down of tempo

The way in which beats are organized in a piece of music. An organization of beats, divisions of beats, and groupings of beats into distinct levels of the passage of time.

Meter that groups beats into threes

Meter that groups beats into twos

Meter that divides beats in three

Meter that divides the beat in two

The metrical stress of a note is displaced in the meter so that the emphasis occurs on normally unstressed beats and carry through stressed beats

Shifted stress by playing them more loudly or giving them a harder attack

Volume of the music. Artful contrasts in loudness often make effective musical expression.

The use of loudness as a musical element

Gradual increase in loudness

Gradual decrease in loudness