Rhythm and Metre

• Rubato 


  played with a degree of flexibility, as long as basic sense of pulse is maintained
• Accelerando 


  The music speeds up; it accelerates
• Polyrhythm 


  More than two conflicting rhythms are heard at the same time
• Augmentation 


  A rhythm is repeated in a longer version often with note values doubled
• Cross rhythm 


  Created when two conflicting Ruth's occur at the same time
• Dotted rhythms 


  Pairs of notes in the pattern long-short- first note is dotted and the second is one third of the dotted note's value
• Rallentando


  Music slows down, opposite of an accelerando
• Triplets 


  Three notes fitted into the time of two
• Syncopation 


  weak beats or off-beats are accented

  • rhythms played against beat
• Straight


  Rhythm played on beat