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APPENDIX I
 ELEMENTS OF MUSIC

RHYTHM:

Definition: The Time factor of Music. The flow of Music through time. Patterns of long and short
sounds and silences in Music.

Duration: The length of sound Metre: Accents:

 Note values and their Simple Time signatures:  Pulse
corresponding rests  Simple duple  Beat
(silence)  Simple triple  Off-beat
 Groupings of notes and  Simple quadruple  Syncopation
Rests in various metres.  Polyrhythms
 Pause (fermata) Compound Time Signatures:  Marcato
 Dotted Rhythm  Compound duple  Tenuto
 Dotted rhythm  Compound triple  fermata
 Triplet,  Compound quadruple
 Duplet
 Phrase length and shape  Regular metre
 Phrase structure
 Augmentation  Irregular metre
 Dimunition
 Mixed metres

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