Yale professor Craig Wright continues his Listening to Music course with a session on musical notation and rhythm. He weighs the advantages and disadvantages of Western notation before turning to beat and meter, working through the durational patterns that distinguish duple from triple time. Students practice conducting basic meter patterns, testing their ears against musical examples ranging from Chuck Mangione and Cole Porter to REM, Chopin, and Ravel. The lecture moves from abstract notation theory into hands-on exercises, using recordings to show how the same rhythmic principles show up across jazz, pop, and classical repertoire. Recorded at Yale in Fall 2008 as the third lecture in MUSI 112, it is built for students with no prior musical training, breaking down how musicians read and count time on the page and in performance.