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2. Lupang Hinirang - Wikipedia

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   Lupang Hinirang. " Lupang Hinirang " ("Chosen Land"), originally titled in Spanish as " Marcha Nacional Filipina " ("Philippine National March"), and commonly and informally known by its incipit " Bayang Magiliw " ("Beloved Country"), is the national anthem of the Philippines. Its music was composed in 1898 by Julián Felipe, and the lyrics ...

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. Half-time (music) - Wikipedia

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   In popular music, half-time is a type of meter and tempo that alters the rhythmic feel by essentially doubling the tempo resolution or metric division /level in comparison to common-time. Thus, two measures of 44 approximate a single measure of 88, while a single measure of 4/4 emulates 2/2. Half-time is not to be confused with alla breve or ...

5. Alla breve - Wikipedia

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   Examples of time signatures for common time. 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 ...

6. La cumparsita - Wikipedia

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   It is among the most famous and recognizable tangos of all time. [1][2] Roberto Firpo, director and pianist of the orchestra that premiered the song, added parts of his tangos "La gaucha Manuela" and "Curda completa" to Matos' carnival march ("La cumparsita"), resulting in "La cumparsita" as it is currently known. [3][4] "La cumparsita" was ...

7. Metre (music) - Wikipedia

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   In music of the common practice period (about 1600–1900), there are four different families of time signature in common use: Simple duple: two or four beats to a bar, each divided by two, the top number being "2" or "4" (2 4, 2 8, 2 2... 4 4, 4 8, 4 2...). When there are four beats to a bar, it is alternatively referred to as "quadruple" time.

8. Rest (music) - Wikipedia

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   Description. Rests are intervals of silence in pieces of music, marked by symbols indicating the length of the silence. Each rest symbol and name corresponds with a particular note value, indicating how long the silence should last, generally as a multiplier of a measure or whole note. The combination of rests used to mark a silence follows the ...

9. Numbered musical notation - Wikipedia

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   Sometimes a piece is written with multiple time signatures simultaneously. For example, it might specify 4/4 2/4 3/4 5/4, meaning that the length of measures is irregular and can be 4, 2, 3 or 5 quarter-notes. The time signature of the first measure is always specified first, and the others are placed in increasing order of length. Usually, the ...