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  2. Quintuple meter - Wikipedia

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    Simple quintuple meter can be written in 5 4 or 5 8 time, but may also be notated by using regularly alternating bars of triple and duple meters, for example 2 4 + 3 4.Compound quintuple meter, with each of its five beats divided into three parts, can similarly be notated using a time signature of 15

  3. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

  4. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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    8, 12 8, and 21 8, and barlines rarely coincide in all four instruments. [30] With polyrhythm, the number of beats varies within a fixed bar length. For example, in a 4:3 polyrhythm, one part plays 4 4 while the other plays 3 4, but the 3 4 beats are stretched so that three beats of 3 4 are played in the same time as four beats of 4 4.

  5. List of musical works in unusual time signatures - Wikipedia

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    The song is in 5 8 when the violin enters, then switches to 11 8. The song shifts between these metres for the remainder of the song. [195] "Losing It" by Rush. Intro and verses are composed out of ten bars in 5 8, other parts are in 11 8. [196] [197] [198] The race results screen from Mario Kart 64, composed by Kenta Nagata . [199]

  6. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Human height. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2][3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system. [4][5] In the early ...

  7. Septuple meter - Wikipedia

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    8 (or in compound meter, 21 8 time). The stress pattern can be 2+2+3 , 3+2+2 , or occasionally 2+3+2 , although a survey of certain forms of mostly American popular music suggests that 2+2+3 is the most common among these three in these styles.

  8. Metre (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Metre (poetry) In poetry, metre (Commonwealth spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study and the actual use of metres and forms ...

  9. Metre - Wikipedia

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    One metre is exactly equivalent to ⁠ 5 000 / 127 ⁠ inches and to ⁠ 1 250 / 1 143 ⁠ yards. A simple mnemonic to assist with conversion is "three 3s": 1 metre is nearly equivalent to 3 feet 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 inches. This gives an overestimate of 0.125 mm. The ancient Egyptian cubit was about 0.5 m (surviving rods are 523–529 mm). [153]