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PRONUNCIATION OF COMPOUND TIME

compound time play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMPOUND TIME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Compound time is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COMPOUND TIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meter (music)

Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry where it means the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables in each line and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented. Hence it may also refer to the pattern of lines and accents in the verse of a hymn or ballad, for example, and so to the organization of music into regularly recurring measures or bars of stressed and unstressed "beats", indicated in Western music notation by a time signature and bar-lines. The terminology of western music is notoriously imprecise in this area. MacPherson preferred to speak of "time" and "rhythmic shape", Imogen Holst of "measured rhythm". However, London has written a book about musical metre, which "involves our initial perception as well as subsequent anticipation of a series of beats that we abstract from the rhythm surface of the music as it unfolds in time". This "perception" and "abstraction" of rhythmic measure is the foundation of human instinctive musical participation, as when we divide a series of identical clock-ticks into "tick-tock-tick-tock".

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMPOUND TIME

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WORDS THAT END LIKE COMPOUND TIME

ahead of time
all the time
at one time
at the same time
big time
from time to time
full time
in good time
in no time
in the fullness of time
in the nick of time
in time
local time
on time
once upon a time
opening time
real time
short time
summer time
the big time
time

Synonyms and antonyms of compound time in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «compound time» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMPOUND TIME

Find out the translation of compound time to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of compound time from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «compound time» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

复合时间
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tiempo compuesto
570 millions of speakers

English

compound time
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यौगिक समय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوقت مركب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

соединение время
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tempo composto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যৌগিক সময়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

temps composé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Masa kompaun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verbindung Zeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

複合拍子
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

화합물 시간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Senyawa wektu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thời gian hợp chất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கலவை நேரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संयुक्त वेळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bileşik zaman
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tempo residuo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

związek czas
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

з´єднання час
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

timp compus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ένωση ώρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

saamgestelde tyd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förening tid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sammensatte tid
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPOUND TIME»

The term «compound time» is normally little used and occupies the 148.843 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMPOUND TIME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about compound time

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMPOUND TIME»

Discover the use of compound time in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to compound time and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Moving Notation: A Handbook of Musical Rhythm and Elementary ...
RHYTHMIC CONCEPTS 4.1 Compound Time Recall that there are only two types of beat subdivision (the duple and triple), and there are two types of note values, simple (duple) and compound (triple). Consequently, there are two categories ...
Jill Beck, H. Joseph Reiser, 1998
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Revisiting Music Theory: A Guide to the Practice
Compound Time Time signatures that have upper numbers, which are multiples of three (but not three itself), may display significantly different characteristics when performed at faster tempos than they do at slower tempi. When performed ...
Alfred Blatter, 2007
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Music Fundamentals: Through Pitch Structures and Rhythmic Design
Example 82 Section 2 Time Noteutiom of Rhythm COMPOUND TIME Thus far, our discussion of rhythm has involved simple meter (or simple time), with its subdivision of the beat (pulse) into two equal parts and the various concepts that relate ...
Elvo S. D'Amante, 1994
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The Basic Guide to how to Read Music
Compound Time Signatures In a compound time signature, the top number is a multiple of three, and this is a significant factor in the interpretation of the time signature. The following are the most common compound time signatures: 6 9 12 16 ...
Helen Cooper, 1985
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The Music Tree English Edition Activities Book: Part 2B
UNIT 6 THEORY Reviewing Major Keys 34 Accompanying and Transposing 35 RHYTHM Learning about Compound Time Signatures 36 Counting and Playing in Compound Time Signatures 37 ADVENTURES IN SIGHT-PLAYING 38 ...
Clark, Frances, Goss, Louise, Holland, Sam
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Primer of Facts about Music: Questions and Answers on the ...
25 Compound time is derived from simple time by substituting for each beat of simple time a measure of simple triple time. Compound time is therefore a combination of simple triple time, with a group of three pulsations for each single beat of ...
May Garrettson Evans, 1908
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Common sense catechism: or, Piano and organ pupils' companion
fundamental forms of measure, and when so employed, forms another kind of measure of a compound character, usually termed Compound Time. Three eighth notes, or their equivalent, go to each unit in compound time, and the number thus ...
Julia E. Nichols, 1882
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Music Theory For Dummies
2 3 ̇ ̇ œ œw ̇ ̇ œ œ œ œ œœœ œ œ ̇ Compound Time Signatures Just a wee bit trickier than simple time signatures are compound time signatures. Here is a short list of rules that help you immediately tell when you're dealing with a ...
Michael Pilhofer, Holly Day, 2011
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Violin Lessons: Teach Yourself How to Play Violin (Free ...
Time signatures fall into two basic categories — simple time and compound time. Simple time is any time signature in which the basic beat is divisible by two. For example, in Z and the basic beat is a quarter note, which may be divided in half ...
LearnToPlayMusic.com, Peter Gelling, 2014
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The Piano Handbook
COMPOUND TIME Normal time values work by subdividing the beat into halves, but we've already seen how triplets divide the beat into thirds instead. We can also group beats into threes for the duration of a piece, using the time signature.
Carl Humphries, Robin Meloy Goldsby, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMPOUND TIME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term compound time is used in the context of the following news items.
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Future Rock: Polymetric Prog-Rock Licks
The next example (Ex. 2) deals with two compound time signatures: 7/8 and 5/8. Our previous example only had one compound time signature ... «Premier Guitar, May 15»
2
Sir Charles Groves - 100 years on
Sir Charles turns to the Serenade for strings and points out one of the principal difficulties: 'The first and last movements are in compound time ... «Gramophone, Mar 15»
3
Ravi Coltrane, 'The New Quartet', Ronnie Scott's, London — review
But they were played in compound time over a backdrop of shifting rhythms and implied beats. Ravi Coltrane is an inventive and melodic ... «Financial Times, Mar 15»
4
Understanding Ian Mosley: An Interview With Mark Pardy
Incorporation of different styles would be another. He has big band influence in his playing, knowledge of compound time signatures, an ability ... «Huffington Post, Mar 15»
5
Live Review: Duncan Chisholm: The Gathering, Queen's Hall …
... tunes, and even in the ones in compound time that come with advice not to try dancing, was couched in such empathetic arrangements. «Herald Scotland, Feb 15»
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Who better to create music theory and aural apps than me?
The theory lessons are broken into three rhythm lessons, introducing duration, time signatures, simple and compound time, and two melody ... «EducationHQ Australia, Nov 14»
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Reviews: music
... by New York vibist Joe Locke, superimposed Coltrane's talismanic melody onto an unfamiliar but effective, compound time framework. «Herald Scotland, Mar 14»
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White Denim, Village Underground - music review
If duelling guitars and compound time signatures are your thing, you'd have been in your element last night. Equally, just because you can play ... «Evening Standard, Nov 13»
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The Impossible Gentlemen, Pizza Express Jazz Club, London
Both sets ended with Walker on a controlled-fury high, the first over broken-beat funk, the second over a slow-burning blues in compound time. «Financial Times, Oct 13»
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Rudresh Mahanthappa's Gamak, Ronnie Scott's, London
Rudresh Mahanthappa's quartet Gamak meld the scales, microtones and compound time signatures of Asia with the rhythmic grit and ... «Financial Times, Sep 13»

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