“…Most pieces in most genres of music display metrical structure , an abstract repeating sequence of alternating strong and weak beats associated with particular moments in time 1 . While this has been most thoroughly explored in Western genres, it is also a basic property of music from Indonesia (Hughes, 1988), the Balkan countries (Hannon & Trehub, 2005; Kaliakatsos‐Papakostas et al., 2014), Turkey (Mungan et al., 2017), China (Nan et al., 2009; Stock, 1993), Japan (Pasciak, 2017), Central Australia (Turpin, 2007, 2017), and diverse African cultures including Venda (Blacking, 1970), Ewe (Ekweume, 1975), Berber (Dell & Elmedlaoui, 2002), Dogon (McPherson & Ryan, 2018), and Hausa (Hayes & Schuh, 2019). While the existence of musical metre is widespread in human cultures, the precise nature and variety of repeating patterns differ to some extent between cultures.…”