It is an interesting fact that the vast majority of Western music is in 4/4 time; that is, it has four beats per bar (a bar is a unit of time). That makes for mostly symmetric rhythmic shapes, with displacements and changes of emphasis within that symmetry the main way that tension is created.
It is intriguing that something so predictable can continue to generate so much variation without becoming tedious. One first thinks of the wonderful closing theme in …
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