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Alla breve [alla ˈbrɛːve] – also known as cut time or cut common time – is a musical meter notated by the time signature symbol (a C) with a vertical line through it, which is the equivalent of 2 2. [1] The term is Italian for "on the breve", originally meaning that the beat was counted on the breve (double whole note). [2]
This symbol represents 4 4 time—four beats per measure with a quarter note representing one beat. It derives from the broken circle that represented "imperfect" duple meter in fourteenth-century mensural time signatures. Alla breve / cut time This symbol represents 2 2 time—two beats per measure with a half-note representing one beat ...
By convention, two special symbols are sometimes used for 4 4 and 2 2: The symbol is sometimes used for 4 4 time, also called common time or imperfect time. The symbol is sometimes used in place of 2 2 and is called alla breve or, colloquially, cut time or cut common time. These symbols derive from mensural time signatures, described below.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script .
Shipping symbols [2] from ISO standard 780 "Pictorial marking for handling of goods" [3] or ASTM D5445 "Standard Practice for Pictorial Markings for Handling of Goods" [4] which depict shipping boxes as squares with rounded corners: "Fragile": the silhouette of a broken wine glass "This end up": a horizontal line with two arrows pointing up
A fermata (Italian: [ferˈmaːta]; "from fermare, to stay, or stop"; [2] also known as a hold, pause, colloquially a birdseye or cyclops eye, or as a grand pause when placed on a note or a rest) is a symbol of musical notation indicating that the note should be prolonged beyond the normal duration its note value would indicate. [3]
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The symbols Δt and ΔT (spoken as "delta T") are commonly used in a variety of contexts. Time. ΔT (timekeeping) the difference between two time scales, ...