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  • adjective music Without the constraints of a metronome; not played or sung with a strict underlying rhythmic method.

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Examples

  • But the events of recent weeks had shown him that life was a nonmetrical song at times, one that went where it needed to for the melody without respect for the rhythm of history and tradition.

    “Canticle” by Ken Scholes (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Robert 2009

  • But the events of recent weeks had shown him that life was a nonmetrical song at times, one that went where it needed to for the melody without respect for the rhythm of history and tradition.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Cindy 2009

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