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  2. 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 ...

  3. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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    Compound metres are written with a time signature that shows the number of divisions of beats in each bar as opposed to the number of beats. For example, compound duple (two beats, each divided into three) is written as a time signature with a numerator of six, for example, 6 8. Contrast this with the time signature 3

  4. Quintuple meter - Wikipedia

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    Simple quintuple meter can be written in 5. 4 or 5. 8 time, but may also be notated by using regularly alternating bars of triple and duple meters, for example 2. 4 + 3. 4. Compound quintuple meter, with each of its five beats divided into three parts, can similarly be notated using a time signature of 15. 8, by writing triplets on each beat of ...

  5. 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.

  6. Sextuple metre - Wikipedia

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    The most common time signatures for simple sextuple metre are 6 4 and 6 8, and compound sextuple metre is most often written in 18 8 or 18 16. A time signature of 18 8 or 18 16, however, does not necessarily mean that the bar is a sextuple metre with each beat divided into three. It may, for example, be used to indicate a bar of triple metre in ...

  7. Tuplet - Wikipedia

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    The most common tuplet [9] is the triplet (German Triole, French triolet, Italian terzina or tripletta, Spanish tresillo).Whereas normally two quarter notes (crotchets) are the same duration as a half note (minim), three triplet quarter notes have that same duration, so the duration of a triplet quarter note is 2 ⁄ 3 the duration of a standard quarter note.

  8. Duple and quadruple metre - Wikipedia

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    Duple metre (or Am. duple meter, also known as duple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 2 and multiples (simple) or 6 and multiples (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with 2. 2 (cut time), 2. 4, and 6. 8 (at a fast tempo) being the most common examples.

  9. Polyrhythm - Wikipedia

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    Polyrhythm (/ ˈpɒlirɪðəm /) is the simultaneous use of two or more rhythms that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter. [ 2 ] The rhythmic layers may be the basis of an entire piece of music (cross-rhythm), or a momentary section.

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