time signature
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From its 1974 debut album to 2015, when the band played a farewell show at the Forum, Rush was the standard-bearer for elaborate, multi-part songs full of falsetto hollers, time signature changes and drum solos.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023
But a typical Bacharach composition was rhythmically complex, often wrong-footing the listener with sudden changes of time signature and irregular phrasing.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2023
The filmmakers reflected on how those musicians in the small mountain town of Barichara strummed guitars and the region’s 12-string tiple in a waltz time signature.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
The song is in the time signature 7/8, whereas most songs written for any medium in the last two centuries are more traditionally 4/4.
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2021
But how long each note actually lasts depends on the time signature and the tempo.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
