MUSICAL TIME

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(music) the beat of musical rhythm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("musical time" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musical time"):

beat; musical rhythm; rhythm (the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music)

common measure; common time; four-four time; quadruple time (a time signature indicating four beats to the bar)

duple time (musical time with two beats in each bar)

triple time (musical time with three beats in each bar)

pacing; tempo ((music) the speed at which a composition is to be played)

in time (in the correct rhythm)