Chapter 2

Question 1

What is the orderly flow of music through time

Answer 1

Rhythm

Note: it includes beat, meter, and tempo

Question 2

What is the regular pulse found in most music

Answer 2

The beat

Question 3

Are beats heard and felt in a steady, even succession?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

What is the pattern of beats?

Answer 4

Meter

Question 5

What do most patterns of beats occur in?

Answer 5

2, 3, or 4’s

Question 6

What do these patterns of units create?

Answer 6

Measures

Question 7

The meter signature is 2 what?

Answer 7

Numbers aligned vertically

Question 8

The upper number on the meter signature tells the what?

Answer 8

Number of beats in a measure

Question 9

The lower number in a time signature tells what?

Answer 9

The type of notes that equal 1 beat

Question 10

2/4

Answer 10

2 beats in a measure

Question 11

3/4

Answer 11

3 beats in a measure

Question 12

4/4

Answer 12

4 beats in measure

Question 13

What is deliberately placed off the beat?

Answer 13

The emphasis, called accent

Question 14

Tempo is what?

Answer 14

The speed of the beats

Question 15

Tempo can be indicated by a what?

Answer 15

Metronome (bpm)
Note: markings provide the number of bpm

Question 16

Tempo can also be marked in words that are in what?

Answer 16

Italian

Question 17

Polyrhythm occurs when how many rhythmic patterns are preformed at the same time

Answer 17

2 or more

Question 18

Polyrhythms Are heard in some twentieth-century music and is heard in many what?

Answer 18

African music