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Common time   /kˈɑmən taɪm/   Listen
Common time

noun
1.
A time signature indicating four beats to the bar.  Synonyms: common measure, four-four time, quadruple time.






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"Common time" Quotes from Famous Books



... distinguished by a pause, or by an emphasis, or accent, certain it is, that this distinction is perpetually repeated; otherwise the ear could not determine instantly, whether the successions of sound were in common or in triple time. In common time there is a division between every two crotchets, or other notes of equivalent time; though the bar in written music is put after every fourth crotchet, or notes equivalent in time; in triple time the division or bar is after every three crotchets, or notes equivalent; so that in common time the repetition ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



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