What is different about the meter of this selection from all of the other examples you have listened to so far in this chapter?
What will be an ideal response?
• "Folsom Prison Blues" is in an obvious (Western-culture) meter—duple
(two-beat | 1 2 | 1 2 | . . .) or quadruple (four-beat | 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4 |. . .), depending on how you are counting—either a slow duple or a fast quadruple.
• Previous selections in the chapter have had an absence of meter. (See also Question 9.)
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