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Name: Meter in Music
ID: m12405
Language: English (en)
Summary: The meter of a piece of music is the repetitive arrangement of strong and weak pulses in the rhythm. Young children can be encouraged to recognize and classify meters even before they learn about time signatures and reading music.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: meter, music, rhythm, time signature
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Latest version: 1.7 (history)
First publication date: Apr 22, 2003 11:52 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: Feb 15, 2007 3:49 pm US/Central
Module XML: m12405_1.7.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.7 Feb 15, 2007 3:49 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
added outline eps and svg files
Version: 1.6 Jan 8, 2007 11:12 am US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
republish for sync error:
added links, small text changes
Version: 1.5 Oct 30, 2006 1:48 pm US/Central by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Fixed typo and included (missing) simple quadruple file
Version: 1.4 Sep 22, 2006 4:58 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added audio examples
Version: 1.3 May 17, 2006 12:07 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Put children't activities in a separate module (m13616).
Version: 1.2 May 24, 2005 7:59 pm GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes: 
update to cnxml-0.5
Version: 1.1 Oct 13, 2004 3:24 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
New module

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