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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

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CAPS (syllable on beat)

small (syllable on offbeat)

* (beat without syllable)

. (offbeat without syllable)

/ (barline separating groupings of (usually) four beats)

= (beat bearing second half of "carryover" syllable (syllable with duration of more than one half beat))

_ (offbeat bearing second half of "carryover" syllable (I'm finding this hard to put into words) (just look at the examples))

STRESS or stress (syllable that's part of a triplet configuration)

(parenthetical) (syllable with duration of less than one-half beat; pickup syllable)

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