Eliott Carter was an American composer, whose personal harmonic and rhythmic language led to the invention of the term metric modulation. The latter describes frequent, precise tempo changes. In David Schiff's book "The Music of Elliott Carter", it is written that Elliott Carter preferred to call it tempo modulation.
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A time signature of 4/4 meter does not mean that each measure has only four quarter notes. It means each measure has only four beats. These beats may contain half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, rests, whatever the composer wants, but all note and rest values must combine to equal no more or less than the top number (or numerator) of the time signature
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