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
By “that” I meant the time signature changes, the instrumentation, and the unpredictable chords that allowed the melody to flow over them and carry the power of Warwick’s performance downstream.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 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 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
Other pieces may have a written time signature, to help the musicians keep track of time, but the musical events in the piece do not give it an audible beat.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
