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time signature
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time signature
Music a sign usually consisting of two figures, one above the other, the upper figure representing the number of beats per bar and the lower one the time value of each beat. This sign is placed after the key signature at the outset of a piece or section of a piece


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The band's history of abrasive guitar noise and odd time signatures is here mostly abandoned for that Lennonesque piano-based sound and conventionally structured songs with gospel and blues-based melodies.
``Time Out'' wasn't the only instance in which pianist Brubeck and his great quartet - saxophonist Paul Desmond, drummer Joe Morello and bassist Eugene Wright - experimented in odd time signatures.
Photo (1) Sting mixes musical genres, odd time signatures and historical allusions on his new album, "Mercury Falling.
 
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