Why do we use the quarter note as our “home base” that we measure all other note durations against?

Because, in 3/4 and 4/4 time, the quarter note is the steady beat. Some notes (the whole note and half note) are longer than the quarter note, and some notes (the eighth note and sixteenth note) are shorter than the quarter note.

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the answer is letter b. false. fugue is a complex musical composition that does not occur or come together at the same time. in fact, it is composed of a number of voices or parts where the theme is introduced in one part and successively imitated in other parts.