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  2. Thumbelina (Frank Loesser song) - Wikipedia

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    ABC kids covered this song in 2010 along with Scott Alplin and Phil Barton, and posted it on YouTube in 2021. In the early May of 2024, a viral video was posted on TikTok featuring a 3-year-old girl soloing to the song by first jumping from a chair and then dancing along on the stage. Other users would then post videos of themselves or their ...

  3. List of musical works in unusual time signatures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.

  4. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

  5. Reel (dance) - Wikipedia

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    2 time signature. Like most dance music originating in the British Isles, reels are usually composed in binary form, meaning they have two parts (A and B); in most reels each part is repeated (AABB), but in others it is not (ABAB). Each part (A and B) typically has eight bars, which in turn are divisible into four-bar and two-bar phrases.

  6. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  7. Half-time (music) - Wikipedia

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    Basic time signatures: 4 4, also known as common time (); 2 2, also known as cut time or cut-common time (); etc. In popular music, half-time is a type of meter and tempo that alters the rhythmic feel by essentially doubling the tempo resolution or metric division/level in comparison to common-time. Thus, two measures of 4

  8. Duple and quadruple metre - Wikipedia

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    Duple metre (or Am. duple meter, also known as duple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 2 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 2 and multiples or 6 and multiples in the upper figure of the time signature, with 2 2 , 2 4, and 6 8 (at a fast tempo) being the most common examples.

  9. Waltz (music) - Wikipedia

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    A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...