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Meter, in music, is the division of a musical line into measures marked by strong and weak beats, represented in Western musical notation by a symbol called a time signature. Appropriately, meter describes the entire concept of measuring rhythmic units, but it can also be used as a specific descriptor of an individual work, as represented by the time signature—"This music is in 4/4 time" is equivalent to saying "This music is in 4/4 time" or "This music is in 4/4". Meter is distinguished from rhythm, in that the latter is identified as patterns of duration, while "meter involves our initial perception as well as the subsequent anticipation of a series of beats that we extract from the rhythmic surface of the music as it extends in time". Ametric music includes chant, some graphic scores that have emerged since the 1950s, and non-European folk music, such as the honkyoko repertoire for shakuhachi.



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