What is the meter of the selection and how is it established? What significant changes do you hear in the time characteristics and how do these changes relate to the overall form of the selection?

What will be an ideal response?

• The meter is duple and established in the percussion part (from the "tick" of a woodblock and the "tock" from a clapper).
• The tempo (speed of the pulse) increases as each excerpt is played from "slowly," to "moderately" to "quickly." This creates a "suite" or cyclic form from slow expanded tunes to fast compressed versions of the same tune (This is a common technique in Chinese ensemble music.)