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meter

Regularly recurring patterns of accented and unaccented beats in music, organizing rhythmic flow into measurable units; found across musical traditions worldwide including African, Indian, and Western systems

Entitymusical-structural conceptQ630649

Also known as metre · metrum · musical meter

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9 identifiers linking meter across the web's reference databases