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(also known as a pickup)
A note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar in a musical phrase. |
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| Sometimes called composite meter. Complex time - meter such as 7/8 that mixes simple and compound pulses. |
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| A beat is the basic pulse in music, like what you might tap your foot to. Beats are grouped into measures, with the same number of beats in each measure. |
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| A meter with three subdivisions for every pulse, having a time signature with the upper figure being a multiple of 3. |
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| The first beat of a measure. The downward movement that a conductor makes to show which note is played with the greatest stress of force. |
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| A meter characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar. |
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| A change in pulse rate (tempo) and/or pulse grouping (subdivision). |
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| When one piece of music has multiple meters or time signatures during the piece. |
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| The individual notes tend to sound concurrently, and it is only their phrase lengths that are different. |
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| The individual notes tend not to sound concurrently (except downbeats), but the phrase lengths are the same. |
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| In music and music theory, the pulse consists of beats in a (repeating) series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level. |
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