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
The time signature appears to shift and the scale drifts in and out of familiarity.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 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
Just listen to “The Temple,” its feverish 7/4 time signature is a nod to Prokofiev’s equally tumultuous seventh piano sonata, with nary a beat to take a breath.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021
You may have noticed that the time signature looks a little like a fraction in arithmetic.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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