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4) and the direction 'Free time' written above. The word FREE is written downwards across the stave. This is mostly used when the piece changes to free time after having had a time signature. Instead of a time signature, a large X is written on the stave. Note heads alone are used, without time values (typically black note heads without stems)
Usually, such time signatures are mutually prime, e.g., 4 4 and 3 8, and so have no common divisors. Thus the change of the basic metre decisively alters the numerical content of the beat, but the minimal denominator (1 8 when 4 4 changes to 3 8; 1 16 when, e.g., 5 8 changes to 7 16, etc.) remains constant in duration. [5]
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 ...
(2002) "Gravity Eyelids" by Porcupine Tree - the second half of the instrumental part starting at 5:12 is partially in 10/8 timing as well as a few other time signatures. (2005) "Music for a Nurse" by Oceansize (2003) "III Ways to Epica" by Kamelot (2008) "Impulse" by An Endless Sporadic: starting around 4:10
(e.g. you can write out 12/8 as a load of triplets in 4/4) The more convoluted a piece of music's rhythms get, the more possible ways there are to think of its time signature. One man's "syncopated cross-rhythm in 4/4" is where another man decides that said syncopation *IS* the beat and defines the time signature.
Most instruments have a standard tuning and stringing, and all other tunings that may be accommodated without changing the strings are scordaturas. Likewise, a particular stringing may have a standard tuning, and all other tunings of this stringing are scordaturas. If there is no standard tuning, then the term scordatura is not applicable.
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Schuler's time constant appears in other contexts. Suppose a tunnel is dug from one end of the Earth to the other end straight through its center. A stone dropped in such a tunnel oscillates harmonically with Schuler's time constant. It can also be proved that the time is the same constant for a tunnel that is not through the center of Earth.