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Hello, my name is Cydney Williams. I am a Music/Music Education Major from University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I am trying to find out a simple meter name for the sample measure on my worksheet. It starts out with sixteenth notes, a sixteenths with the eighth note, and a dotted quarter note with the eighth note.
Michele On 9/12/15, Cydney Williams wrote: > Hello, my name is Cydney Williams. I am a Music/Music > Education Major from University of North Carolina at > Pembroke. I am trying to find out a simple meter name for > the sample measure on my worksheet. It starts out with > sixteenth notes, a sixteenths with the eighth note, and a > dotted ...See More
Sep 12, 2015
Adam Meter names are case specific. You can discover every rhythm element and their names here: [link removed]

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Sep 12, 2015
Mary-Lorraine Remember that the top of the time signature is the number of beats in a measure and the bottom is the note that gets a full beat. 4/4 means 4 quarter note beats per measure, 8/8 means 8 eighth notes per measure.

If your measure has four 16th notes (=1Q or 2E), two 16ths and an 8th (=1Q or 2E) and a dotted quarter note with an 8th note (=2Q...See More
Sep 13, 2015
Mary-Lorraine The measure you described has a simple meter with number of beats divided equaly by 2. Four beats per measure supported by the bars and ties you implied make it quadruple, so it would be a quadruple simple meter.

On 9/13/15, Mary-Lorraine wrote: > Remember that the top of the time signature is the number of > beats in a measure and t...See More
Sep 13, 2015


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