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Pickups
AU:
BBD a10036271
H:
MT Music terms
SN:
Notes preceding the first metrically strong beat (usually the first beat of the first complete measure) of a phrase or section of a composition; anacrusis, upbeat (New Harvard Dictionary of Music)
UF:
Anacrusis
 
Upbeats
BT:
Phrase structure
RT:
Accents
 
Meter