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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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Whenever I travel on foot or in thought on this inerrant continent I move alla breve, whether I'm in Luanda or Sierra Leone, Rwanda or Darfur, reading a flaky issue of the Guardian or poling "all the great emptiness," whereas Conrad's "perfectly insignificant and incapable" Belgians huddle together "as children do in the dark" and grow lazy, mean and mad living at the Company's trading station in the Belgian Congo.
In the third movement, Finale: Alla Breve, Matsuev and the orchestra played off each other brilliantly, especially the rich conversations between piano and woodwinds, until Matsuev took it over and drove the piece to its dramatic conclusion.
Although teachers have traditionally turned to fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier or the Sinfonias to meet this demand, the three alla breve variations are probably better.
 
 
 
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