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music-glossary: hymn meter

 
 1.157 hymn meter
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 ES: ?, I: metrica dell’inno, F: ?, D: Silbenanzahl, NL: ?, DK: ?, S: ?,
 FI: säkeiden tavumäärät.
 
    A group or list of numbers that indicate the number of syllables in a
 line of a hymn’s verse.  Different hymnals have different ways of noting
 the hymn meter: for example, consider a hymn that has four lines in two
 couplets alternating regularly between eight and seven syllables.  The
 _English Hymnal_ notes this as 87. 87.  Other hymnals may note it as
 8787, 87.87, or 8 7 8 7.
 
    Some frequently-used hymn meters have traditional names:
 
    • 66.86 is called Short Meter (abbreviated SM or S.M.)
    • 86.86 is called Common Meter (CM or C.M.)
    • 88.88 is called Long Meter (LM or L.M.)
 
    Some hymns and their tunes are doubled versions of a simpler meter:
 for easier reading, a hymn with a meter of 87.87.87.87 is usually
 written 87.87D. The traditional names above also have doubled versions:
 
    • 66.86.66.86 is Double Short Meter (DSM or D.S.M.)
    • 86.86.86.86 is Double Common Meter (DCM or D.C.M.)
    • 88.88.88.88 is Double Long Meter (DLM or D.L.M.)
 
 
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