AP Music Theory 4.1 Score Analysis

potential answers brought to you by the metric system with

a different deal All right compound and simple are opposing

terms used for a lot of things including interest fractures

and time signatures Luckily for all parties involved we're looking

at time signatures So if we get this question wrong

we might be looking at fractures Are boss Takes music

education pretty seriously for this problem all we need to

know is what a compound meter is versus a simple

meter Well a simple meter is any time signature in

which the beats air naturally divided into two equal parts

Whereas a compound meter is any time signature where the

beats are naturally divided into threes So yep Looks like

we have to use math You could do it Drummers

stay strong Okay So for example the time signature eight

to khun be divided into two parts That means answer

D's on the wrong team Likewise the time signature for

one is naturally divisible into two equal parts for one

would also be a great name for a boy band

but it's not our answer So bye bye bye answer

B seven four is tricky It appears to be neither

compound nor simple but if we think about each of

the seven beats in the measure being divided into two

eighth notes each we can see that it's in simple

meter to which leaves us with twelve sixteen Well twelve

sixteen is naturally divisible by three no matter how you

slice it Three groups of four four groups of three

ala mode or ice cream on the side our compound

meter is answered a so many fractions We have broken

our math bone Now all we have to do is

figure out if it's a compound or a simple fracture