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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.
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 ...
For example, the time signature 4 4 indicates each bar is eight quavers long, and has four beats, each a crotchet (that is, two quavers) long. The asymmetric time signature 3+3+2 8, on the other hand, while also having eight quavers in a bar, divides them into three beats, the first three quavers long, the second three quavers long, and the ...
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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.
4 or 11 8, are often called complex, irregular or odd. These time signatures cannot be evenly subdivided into groups of two or three. Common time 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 ...
The beat is always called ta. In simple meters, the division and subdivision are always ta-di and ta-ka-di-mi. Any note value can be the beat, depending on the time signature. In compound meters (wherein the beat is generally notated with dotted notes), the division and subdivision are always ta-ki-da and ta-va-ki-di-da-ma.
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