metre (music)

Particularly, this article is not about Hymn meters, as often found on hymn tunes Meter or metre is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed "beats", indicated in Western music notation by a symbol called a time signature. Properly, "meter" describes the whole concept of measuring rhythmic units, but it can also be used as a specific descriptor for a measurement of an individual piece as represented by the time signature—for example, "This piece is in " is equivalent to "This piece is in 4/4 time" or "This piece has a 4/4 time signature".
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