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Peter Crossley-Holland
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Emeritus Professor of Music, University of California, Los Angeles. Author of Pelican History of Music (vol. 1, part I).

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classical poetic meter
Rhythm, in music, is the organization of sounds in time. More specifically, it refers to patterns of duration (long and short sounds) that occur within a regular underlying pulse, or beat. Rhythm is fundamental to all music. In its most general sense, rhythm (Greek rhythmos, derived from rhein, β€œto…
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