[DOC] [TLE] Basic Terms - McGraw Hill Higher Education [PAR] Regular, recurrent pulsation that divides miusic into equal units of time. ... 
Unaccented pulse preceding the downbeat. Tempo indication. Words, usually at 
the beginning of a piece of music, often in Italian, which specify the pace ... 
Emphasis of a note, which may result from its being louder (dynamic accent), 
longer, or higher... [DOC] [TLE] Glossary for Music Appreciation [PAR] aria In opera or oratorio, a set piece, usually for a single performer, that 
expresses ... in which one voice imitates another at a staggered time interval; (2) 
a piece that ... clef In musical notation, a symbol at the beginning of a staff that 
determines the ... or triple meters in which the individual beats are subdivided 
into triple units. [DOC] [TLE] Glossary of Musical Terms - Classical Works [PAR] Beat -, The unit of musical rhythm. ... The tune may also be played at different 
speeds, backwards, or inverted. ... Da Capo -, In sheet music, an instruction to 
repeat the beginning of the piece before .... Rhythm -, The element of music 
pertaining to time, played as a grouping of notes into accented and unaccented 
beats. [DOC] [TLE] Beat (music) - Wikipedia [PAR] In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly 
repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level). The beat is often defined 
as the rhythm listeners would tap their toes to when listening to a piece of music, 
or the numbers a musician counts ... In popular use, beat can refer to a variety of 
related concepts including:... [DOC] [TLE] Metre (music) - Wikipedia [PAR] The metre (Am. meter) of music is its rhythmic structure, the patterns of accents 
heard in .... A rhythmic unit is a durational pattern which occupies a period of time 
.... a series of movements that may synchronise to an entire musical section or 
piece. ... two 2-beat units and a 3-beat unit with a stress at the beginning of each 
unit. [DOC] [TLE] Rhythm - Wikipedia [PAR] Most music, dance and oral poetry establishes and maintains an underlying "
metric level", a basic unit of time that may be audible or implied, the pulse or 
tactus... [DOC] [TLE] Quia - Unit 3: Rhythm and Meter [PAR] Music moves in time= Musical Rhythm organizes the flow of time ... Meter, A 
repetitive pattern that combines accented and unaccented beats ... note if the 
tempo of the piece is slow, If the tempo is slow, the 3rd or four 16ths may get a ... 
Is placed at the beginning of a piece after the key signature and at any 
subsequent point... [DOC] [TLE] Term Definition [PAR] Cut Time. 4/4 cut in half to 2/2 It indicates there are two beats per measure and 
the half ... In sheet music, an instruction to repeat the beginning of the piece 
before stopping ... The unit of measure where the beats on the lines of the staff 
are divided up into ... Eight full tones above the key note where the scale begins 
and ends. [DOC] [TLE] Musical form - Wikipedia [PAR] The term musical form (or musical architecture) refers to the overall structure or 
plan of a piece ... The arrangement of the pulse into unaccented and accented 
beats, the cells of a measure that, when harmonized, may give rise to a motif or 
figure. ... This "phrase" may be regarded as the fundamental unit of musical form: 
it... [DOC] [TLE] Elements of Music - History Of Music - Tripod [PAR] -Sound begins with the vibration of an object, such as a table that is pounded or a 
string that is plucked. .... Beat: is a regular, recurrent pulsation that divides music 
into equal units of time. When you ... Upbeat: It is an unaccented pulse preceding 
the downbeat. ... A tempo indication is usually given at the beginning of a piece. [DOC] [TLE] Learn more about meter signatures [PAR] most pieces of music is a consistent rhythmic pulse. ... called compound

Question: An unaccented unit of musical time that may begin a piece
Answer: Upbeat