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  2. Hazaj meter - Wikipedia

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    a) ^ The hazaj music meter is part of the iqa ("rhythm") system, which expresses the various meters of the literary 'arud system in terms of rhythmic units. In terms of music meter, the hazaj has a 2/4 signature. Both the iqa and 'arud systems are attributed to Khalil ibn Ahmad.

  3. Groove (music) - Wikipedia

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    Funk music such as the type performed by groups like Parliament Funkadelic uses catchy electric bass lines and drum patterns to create a propulsive, emphatic rhythmic "feel" that is often referred to as a "groove". In music, groove is the sense of an effect ("feel") of changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm or sense of "swing".

  4. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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    Metrical rhythm, measured rhythm, and free rhythm are general classes of rhythm and may be distinguished in all aspects of temporality: [14] Metrical rhythm , by far the most common class in Western music, is where each time value is a multiple or fraction of a fixed unit (beat, see paragraph below), and normal accents reoccur regularly ...

  5. Introduction (music) - Wikipedia

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    The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic or rhythmic material related to the main body of a piece. [ 1 ] Introductions may consist of an ostinato that is used in the following music, an important chord or progression that establishes the tonality and groove for the following music, or they may be important but disguised or out-of-context ...

  6. Break (music) - Wikipedia

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    A break beat is the sampling of breaks as beats, (originally found in soul or funk tracks) and their subsequent use as the rhythmic basis for hip hop and rap. It was invented by DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican who emigrated to New York.

  7. Rhythmic mode - Wikipedia

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    Pérotin, "Alleluia nativitas", in the third rhythmic mode. In medieval music, the rhythmic modes were set patterns of long and short durations (or rhythms).The value of each note is not determined by the form of the written note (as is the case with more recent European musical notation), but rather by its position within a group of notes written as a single figure called a ligature, and by ...

  8. Ostinato - Wikipedia

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    Unlike these music genres, funk is based on the rhythmic groove of the percussion, rhythm section instruments, and a deep electric bass line, usually all over a single chord. "In funk, harmony is often second to the 'lock,' the linking of contrapuntal parts that are played on guitar, bass, and drums in the repeating vamp." [31]

  9. Rhythm - Wikipedia

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    Rhythm may be defined as the way in which one or more unaccented beats are grouped in relation to an accented one. ... A rhythmic group can be apprehended only when its elements are distinguished from one another, rhythm...always involves an interrelationship between a single, accented (strong) beat and either one or two unaccented (weak) beats ...