Definitions
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- adjective Without
meter (musical or poetical measure);arhythmic . - adjective Without a
meter (measuring device).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The band took to the stage on a foggy warble of cable moans and blasted into a kind of meterless take on Erase Errata - vocalist Jess Goddard in barking mode and guitars set to bacon-frying attack.
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With the meterless levels I & 2 (fixed rates) the time spent on meter reading has been minimized.
1 Introduction 1992
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Coming from a family steeped in Jewish musical tradition - including his grandfather, Cantor Jacob Konigsberg - Lockwood adds rhythm to traditionally meterless cantorial songs.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Coming from a family steeped in Jewish musical tradition - including his grandfather, Cantor Jacob Konigsberg - Lockwood adds rhythm to traditionally meterless cantorial songs.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The players were doing such a fine job of following one another through the tricky rhythms and open-ended, meterless sections that to provide formal direction seemed unnecessary.
Phawker 2008
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