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Metre and Time Signatures

This document discusses time signatures and beat patterns in music. It explains that time signatures indicate the number and value of beats in each bar, with the top number showing how many beats and the bottom number representing the note value of each beat. Simple duple time has two beats per bar, simple triple has three beats, and simple quadruple has four beats. Examples are given of common time signatures like 4/4 and 3/4 and their meaning is explained. Readers are then asked to practice identifying time signatures and applying beat patterns.

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Metre and Time Signatures

This document discusses time signatures and beat patterns in music. It explains that time signatures indicate the number and value of beats in each bar, with the top number showing how many beats and the bottom number representing the note value of each beat. Simple duple time has two beats per bar, simple triple has three beats, and simple quadruple has four beats. Examples are given of common time signatures like 4/4 and 3/4 and their meaning is explained. Readers are then asked to practice identifying time signatures and applying beat patterns.

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Metre and Time Signatures


Simple Duple – Simple Triple – Simple Quadruple
Music falls naturally into repeating patterns of strong and weak beats.

Notes and rests are written in bars to show these patterns.

Barlines are thin straight lines drawn across the staff dividing it into bars. To show the end of a piece of music a
double bar line, one thin and one thick line, is used.

A time signature is two numbers, one on top of the other, written at the beginning of the stave to show the
number and value of beats in each bar which follows.

The top number of a time signature shows the number


of beats in each bar

The bottom number represents the type of note given


to each beat (expressed as a fraction of a semibreve)

Theory
Simple Duple time means two beats in the bar (like marching music).

The time signature means that there are two beats in a bar and that they are crotchet beats.

Simple Triple time means three beats in the bar (like waltzing music).

The time signature means that there are three beats in a bar and that they are crotchet beats.

Simple Quadruple time means four beats in the bar.

The time signature means that there are four beats in a bar and that they are crotchet beats.

44 time is often indicated by the sign C and popularly called Common time.
Practice
1. Complete each of these bars with notes to make up the right value.

2. Write the proper time signature, or at the beginning of the following bars:

3. Write the proper time signature, , or at the beginning of the following bars:

4. Describe each time signature just written as Simple Duple, Simple Triple or Simple Quadruple:

a) _______________ b) _______________ c) _______________ d) _______________ e) _______________

5. Add bar lines to this tune

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