common time

English

Noun

common time (uncountable)

  1. (music) A meter of four quarter notes per measure.
  2. (military) The ordinary pace of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute.

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Translations
4/4 — see 4/4

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