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time signature

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time signature
n. Music
A sign placed on a staff to indicate the meter, commonly a numerical fraction of which the numerator is the number of beats per measure and the denominator represents the kind of note getting one beat.
time signature
n
(Music, other) 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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Noun1.time signature - a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat
musical time signature
musical notation - (music) notation used by musicians
alla breve - a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure
Translations
time signature n (Mus) → indicazione f del tempo
time signature n (Mus) → indicazione f del tempo


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