Music Theory: The Foundation of Great Music. Episode 16, Hypermeter and Larger Musical Structures

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In listening to music, we sometimes hear the meter differently than the way it's written on the page. Learn how the concept of hypermeter helps explain this, by showing that when measures of music ...

In listening to music, we sometimes hear the meter differently than the way it's written on the page. Learn how the concept of hypermeter helps explain this, by showing that when measures of music are grouped into phrases, we often hear a pulse for each measure in the phrase, rather than the pulses within the measure. Explore examples of hypermeter, and how we perceive music as listeners.

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