节奏与节拍

Rhythm and Meter

节奏，从广义上来说，是一个用来描述音乐持续时间状况的术语。从狭义上来说，它有时也会被用来描述这样的情况：“一个节奏”或“某一个小节中的节奏”指的是在那个小节中明确的时间关联。“一个节奏”的意思是乐音长短排列的特定安排，某些被着重强调了的音，称为重音。一个单一的、有规律的、重复的且有重拍和非重拍停顿的音型，称为节拍。

Rhythm,in the most general sense,is the term referring to the whole time aspect of music.The term rhythm can also be used in a less general sense.“A Rhythm”or “the rhythm of a particular passage”refers to the specific time relationships with-in that passage.“A rhythm”is simply a particular arrangcment of long and short notes.Certain sounds strcssed are called accents.A simple.regular,recurring pattern with a pulse of accented and unaccented beats is called the meter.The process of beating time consists of marking out the strong（accented）and wead（unaccented）beats which make up the meter.Basically there are two kinds of meter.duple（ONE two ONE two…）and triple（ONE two three ONE two three…）