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I've studied music in both the US and the UK (piano lessons in the UK at age 14, majored in piano in the US), and bar and measure are used interchangeably in both in my experience. Jazz and blues musicians tend to say 'bar' more often than 'measure': 12-bar and 16-bar blues, for example. Also, you'd never hear a jazz musician say 'He stepped on four of my measures' if someone came in four bars early while he was improvising for an allotted number of bars. Nevertheless, they mean the same thing, both in the US and the UK.
7th guest free download full version pc game. A 'bar' is actually the graphical entity separating measures. 'Let's start at bar x' is probably what led to 'bar' becoming a substitute for 'measure' in some usage. After all, 'measure' has a lot of meanings already, and some of them in contexts close to music (a 'at measured pace', the dance 'measure', possibly also used for 'phrase' generally). I'd not be surprised if dancers called a basic dancing step (depending on the metre, one or two beats) a 'measure': at least German dancers confuddled me a lot by what they choose to call a 'Takt'. It is true that 'measure' is used synonymously with 'bar' in North America. Christopher Hasty, in Meter as Rhythm (1997) makes a compelling case for ceasing use of 'measure' (in short, that he wishes to use the notion of 'measure' more flexibly than the usage synonymous with bar, since in the process of making sense of rhythmic activity we use 'measures' of a variety of lengths). While he advocates the use of 'bar measure' as a surrogate, this hasn't caught on, to my knowledge; however, his case for reserving the term 'measure' for the purposes he states is a compelling one for rhythmic theory.
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(On the topic of metric terminology, he also advocates the use of 'meter signature' rather than 'time signature,' for obvious reasons. This is a practice followed by other careful thinkers on meter, including those who predate Hasty (e.g., George Houle, 1987), although many or most North Americans continue to use the term 'time signature.' 'bar line' is nicely unambiguous. However, taking a look at 1913 Webster's (admittedly an American dictionary), 'bar' has plentiful non-musical meanings and almost all of them stand for some sort of barrier or at least confined space, making it hard to assume a relation to 'measure' without going through the separation line as 'bar'. In fact, the musical definition is plainly 'A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.' –May 5 '14 at 13:31.