Time characteristics: (A). How is meter addressed in the selection? (B). What is the meter? (See Transcription 4-9) (C). What keeps the music in meter?
What will be an ideal response?
• The axes chopping precisely on the first beat of each measure makes the music metric.
• Between each "chop" sound the voices are "looser" and more flexible.
• Quadruple or four-beat meter.
• The crisp, consistent axe "beat" (chop sound) keeps the music in meter.
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