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time signature

NOUN
  1. a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat

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  • I was also struck by the obvious musical links between what these musicians were conveying in its purest form, and the roots of our own American music: the glissandos, time signatures, the improvisations; it was all there to hear and mark as building blocks of the blues. Michal Shapiro: Bards of West Africa: the Griot Summit (Video)
  • Table 1 shows the time signatures commonly found in Western mensural music since about 1700.
  • You can't have that many chords and time signatures in a show and be tasteful. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each fractured time signature, every dissonant choirboy harmony, they all point to something that is distinctly Vanderslice.
  • It was Dave Brubeck -- a man who could not read sheet music and who was nearly barred from graduating the College of the Pacific music school in 1942 because of it -- who reinvented the genre with his signature style of polyrhythms, odd time signatures, and polytonality. Network Awesome: Brubeck's Signature, Signed with Time
  • The so-called one-time signature scheme is a signature scheme which signs only one message and the signature can be verified an arbitrary number of times.
  • With its syncopations and constantly changing time signatures, the composition is a rare hybrid that sounds familiar in places and then twists and turns into something wholly original.
  • By the late 1940s, he was already employing modern classical ideas such as polytonality and dissonance, and working in unusual time signatures to create a distinctive jazz sound. NPR Topics: News
  • The dot indicators on each line of the staves give the position of each semi-quaver in a time signature of 4/4.
  • The band played progressive metal, a style mixing complex compositional structures and odd time signatures with the intensity of heavy metal.
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