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| | Mapping Metrical Particularity |
 | | Meter is often described in terms of a binary opposition between duple versus triple beat orderings and simple versus compound beat subdivisions, yielding the familiar set of "four basic meters." In his recent book, Meter as Rhythm, Christopher Hasty has challenged this typology--indeed, the very notion of this or any reductive metric typology. |
 | | Though a consideration of shadow meters, multiple meters, and so forth is beyond the scope of this paper, I would point out that one may use this model of metric space, with different definitions of well-formedness, as a means of distinguishing amongst various intuitions regarding metric ambiguity, multiplicity, and so forth. |
 | | Two meters can be regarded as more or less similar based on the number of nodes they have in common, a "strong form" of similarity, as well as by their regional closeness--a weaker form of similarity. |
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