usually, time signatures with 5 or 7 as the top number
Asymmetrical meter
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Asymmetrical time signature
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usually, time signatures with 5 or 7 as the top number
Barline
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a vertical line drawn across the staff to mark off measures of a particular length, containing a number of notes whose total…
Bergamasca
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Italian
a sixteenth and seventeenth century dance originally from Bergamo, then in simple duple time, but now associated with a wider…
Bergamasque
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French
a sixteenth and seventeenth century dance originally from Bergamo, then in simple duple time, but now associated with a wider…
Bergomask
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German
a sixteenth and seventeenth century dance originally from Bergamo, then in simple duple time, but now associated with a wider…
Broken time
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the interposition of short sections (general only a bar or two) in a contrasting time signature; unusual time signatures that…
Changing time signatures
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see in Time Signatures
Common time
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the time signature 4/4 See common time in Elements of a Musical Score see in Time Signatures