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music-glossary: measure

 
 1.185 measure
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 ES: compás, I: misura, battuta, F: mesure, D: Takt, NL: maat, DK: takt,
 S: takt, FI: tahti.
 
    A group of beats (units of musical time) the first of which bears an
 accent.  Such groups in numbers of two or more recur consistently
 throughout the composition and are separated from each other by bar
 lines.
 
 
 See also
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    bar line, beat, meter.
 

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