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  2. List of musical works in unusual time signatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.

  3. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

  4. Septuple meter - Wikipedia

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    4 alternating with 4 4 referencing its time signature with the lyric "seven maids move in seven time". [128] "Schism" by Tool, verse with alternating measures of 5 8 and 7 8, chorus of alternating measures of 6 8 and 7 8 [129] "Seven" by Dave Matthews Band (verses in 7 4) [130] "Speculation", composed by Shoji Meguro for the Persona 4 video ...

  5. Polka - Wikipedia

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    At that time, it was the only television program for this type of music in the United States. [19] A number of polka shows originated from the Buffalo Niagara Region in the 1960s, including WKBW-TV 's Polka Time , which was hosted for its first half-year on air by Frankie Yankovic, and cross-border station CHCH-TV 's Polka Party , hosted by ...

  6. Mazurka - Wikipedia

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    The Mazurka (Polish: mazurek) is a Polish musical form based on stylised folk dances in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, with character defined mostly by the prominent mazur 's "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat ". [2]

  7. March (music) - Wikipedia

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    Marches can be written in any time signature, but the most common time signatures are 4 4, 2 2 (alla breve, although this may refer to 2 time of Johannes Brahms, or cut time), or 6 8. However, some modern marches are being written in 1 2 or 2 4 time. The modern march tempo is typically around 120 beats per minute.

  8. Londonderry Air - Wikipedia

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    In a 1934 article, Anne Geddes Gilchrist suggested that the performer whose tune Ross heard, played the song with extreme rubato, causing Ross to mistake the time signature of the piece for common time (4 4) rather than 3 4. Gilchrist asserted that adjusting the rhythm of the piece as she proposed produced a tune more typical of Irish folk ...

  9. Turkish folk music - Wikipedia

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    A wide variety of time signatures are used in Turkish folk music. In addition to simple ones such as 2/4, 4/4 and 3/4, others such as 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 7/4, and 5/4 are common. Combinations of several basic rhythms often results in longer, complex rhythms that fit into time signatures such as 8/8, 10/8, and 12/8.