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- noun Plural form of
time-signature .
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Examples
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The trumpeter's sound can keep its lustre and poise over the band's most challenging time-signatures.
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There was French-born pianist-composer Christian Jacob's Big Band Theory, which brought a Gallic lyricism and offbeat time-signatures to its modernistic barn-burners.
Keeping Those Big Bands Swinging Tom Nolan 2011
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But if he was a step behind, he was a quietly combative, thoughtful, subtle and often eloquent practitioner, able to write complex, yet richly harmonised and lyrical scores in shifting time-signatures, which nonetheless liberated rather than cramped improvising soloists.
The Guardian World News John Fordham 2011
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Through new abstractions like bleeding-over production and fancy time-signatures the choruses are still spirited.
LAS magazine | music, media, art, culture, life, everything 2010
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Apart from some stupid, bouncy rock n 'roll tracks, it's actually quite a nice album, with some slightly progressive time-signatures appearing here and there to spice things up a bit.
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The prog-metal guys are mixing it with Yes, the doom guys are making it ethereal, the djent guys are playing with time-signatures and using the rhythm as a different expression of virtuosity (just as Prokofiev and Debussy were doing at the beginning of last century with their sonatas.)
MetalSucks Eyal Levi 2010
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Meshuggah is a band with that could have gripped a whole fan base with time-signatures alone.
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Meshuggah is a band with that could have gripped a whole fan base with time-signatures alone.
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Meshuggah is a band with that could have gripped a whole fan base with time-signatures alone.
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The flamboyant neo-prog rock Mars Volta get into some serious time-signatures ...
iTunes Top 10 Albums 2009
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