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| | Usul (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The term usul has often been translated as "meter", but usul and meter are not exactly the same thing. |
 | | Another difference of usul from meter is that whereas short usuls are almost identical to western types of meters (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/4 etc) in their function, the longer types of usuls (28/4, 32/4, 120/4) are compound metric structures that underly longer sections of entire compositions, and are thus rhythmic frameworks rather than meters. |
 | | The usul rhythmic mode is counterpart to makam melodic mode. |
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