Music is a systematizing of time, and various characteristics of time are reflected in music. A singular point of time passes is the present, but the present time which we understand practically, has range. The present range is different, and it is dependent on the line of connection. Also in music the present has range. For example, it can either be a tone or a first motif. Interpretation of music is changed according to which range is selected as the musical present. The various range of time according to how to take the present, is inseparable from the hierarchy of music. In concrete terms, the variety of the present range is closely related with the difference between the hierarchical units, the lower stage (short unit) and the higher stage (long unit). That is to say, the diversity in the choice of the present range proves musical hierarchy. This paper considers, by way of a schematic model, how hierarchical characters which musical present has are related with meter which is another factor that composes musical time.
