Explain the concepts of metered and nonmetered music in the WOM (pp.148-9) and the term ostinato. What do “melodic phrases” in music tend to connect with?
What will be an ideal response?
- (A) Metered music has a beat or pulse. [1]
- (B) Non metered music has an irregular rhythm – without "an even pulse or repeating pattern of beats.
- (C) An ostinato is a musical line that repeats throughout the piece.
- Phrases are the shortest, complete musical ideas or units in a musical composition, analogous to word phrases in an English sentence.
[1] Meter is created in music by a constantly recurring emphasis on the same beat within a repeating group of beats, such as 1 2 1 2 1 2 in a duple meter or 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 in a triple meter. For example, a duple meter is commonly used in marches; and waltzes are in a triple meter.
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