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Example sentences for "common time"

  • The common time of musicians is divided into bars, each of which contains four crotchets, or a proportional number of their subdivision into quavers and semiquavers.

  • There are but two kinds of time acknowledged in modern music, which are called triple time, and common time.

  • It is performed by two persons in common time.

  • A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.

  • A kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.

  • I asked McClellan to take out his watch and count whilst I marched in "common time".

  • It commences with a movement in common time entitled La Benivoglia.

  • Allegro in common time; and the short Grave is followed by a light Allegro in six-eight time.

  • Then comes my beautiful dominant (G major, common time).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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