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  2. Metre (hymn) - Wikipedia

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    D.L.M. (also L.M.D., or LMD)—Doubled LM, 8.8.8.8.8.8.8.8. 8.7.8.7.D —equivalent to two verses of 8.7.8.7., either trochaic or iambic . English minister and hymn writer Isaac Watts , who wrote hundreds of hymns and was instrumental in the widespread use of hymns in public worship in England, is credited with popularizing and formalizing ...

  3. Hymn metre - Wikipedia

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  4. Trishtubh (Vedic metre) - Wikipedia

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    Trishtubh (Sanskrit: त्रिष्टुभ्, IPA: [tɽɪˈʂʈʊbʱ], IAST: Triṣṭubh) is a Vedic metre of 44 syllables (four padas of eleven syllables each), or any hymn composed in this metre. It is the most prevalent metre of the Rigveda, accounting for roughly 40% of its verses.

  5. Septuple meter - Wikipedia

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    Five of Holst's settings of English translations of hymns from the ancient Sanskrit Rig Veda, composed between 1907 and 1912, are in septuple meter, specifically "Song of the Frogs" and "Creation" (songs 6 and 8 from his Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 24, for voice and piano, composed in 1907–08) [36] as well as "Funeral Hymn" (Choral Hymns ...

  6. Hymn tune - Wikipedia

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    From the late sixteenth century in England and Scotland, when most people were not musically literate and learned melodies by rote, it was a common practice to sing a new text to a hymn tune the singers already knew which had a suitable meter and character. There are many hymn tunes which might fit a particular hymn: a hymn in Long Metre might ...

  7. Long metre - Wikipedia

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    Long metre or long measure, abbreviated as L.M. or LM, is a poetic metre consisting of four line stanzas, or quatrains, in iambic tetrameter with alternate rhyme pattern ABAB. [1] The term is also used in the closely related area of hymn metres. When the poem is used as a sung hymn, the metre of the text is denoted by the syllable count of each ...

  8. Category:Rhythm and meter - Wikipedia

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  9. The Metric Marvels - Wikipedia

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    The series shared the animation style, song quality and voice actors with the popular Schoolhouse Rock! on rival network ABC. Incoming NBC president Fred Silverman, formerly of ABC, may have thought to replicate the success of that show; Newall & Yohe also produced Saturday morning network IDs and the full-length Drawing Power! series for NBC ...