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Common time

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four-four timenoun(music) A meter or rhythm with four beats to a measure and four beats to a whole note. Specifically simple quadruple time or common time.
common measurenounthe usual (iambic) meter of a ballad
simple quadruple timenoun(music) A meter or rhythm with four beats to a measure and four beats to a whole note; specifically common time.
cut timenoun(music) A meter of two minims (half notes) per measure.
quarternounA fourth part of something.
compound timenoun(music) Time in which each bar is made up of two or more simple bars.
quarter restnoun(music) A rest of the same duration as a quarter note.
quarter notenoun(Canada, US, music) A musical note one beat long in 4/4 time.
quadtonenounA picture printed in four shades.
three-quarter timenoun(music) A time signature of a composition indicating three quarter notes or their equivalent in each measure.
half restnoun(music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.
timenoun(uncountable) The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
fourthnoun(in the singular) The person or thing in the fourth position.
double timenounA rate of pay that is twice the normal rate (for reasons such as working on a holiday or working hazardous duty).
alla brevenoun(music) A time signature for which the half note is the beat and there are two beats per measure.
septimolenoun(music) A group of seven notes to be played in the time of four or six.
three-quarter-timenounAlternative form of three-quarter time. [(music) A time signature of a composition indicating three quarter notes or their equivalent in each measure.]
compound meternoun(music) A meter with three subdivisions for every pulse.
quarter tonenoun(music) The musical interval equal to one quarter of a tone or 1/24 of an octave; half a semitone.
minim restnoun(music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.

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