(A) Time Characteristics

What will be an ideal response?

• strong rhythms reinforced by drum
• selection starts out with drums and triangle with tempo steadily increasing until the panpipes join in at 0:11
• From then on the tempo is medium and the beats are steady, but not grouped into any familiar Western meter.

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A) true B) false

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