four-four time

British  

noun

1. Also called: common time.  Often shortened to: four-four.  music a form of simple quadruple time in which there are four crotchets to the bar, indicated by the time signature

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four-four time

Turns out that orchestras play the anthem in three-quarter time, not in four-four time, as I sing it at ballgames.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2019

To eavesdrop on their casual musicianship and their ad-lib ease is to hear a hopeful teen heart, circa 1962, beating in good-rockin' four-four time.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was simple, Byrd discovered, "to play a very full jazz solo with this stuff; you can do a great deal that you can't do with regular four-four time."

From Time Magazine Archive

In place of: "two-two time, three-eight time, four-four time," say as above: "This piece is written in two-half measure, three-eighth measure, four-quarter measure."

From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson

Broadly speaking, the notes forming a single beat of the measure should be united in one hook, but very commonly two beats have one hook between them, especially in four-four time.

From How to Write Music Musical Orthography by Harris, Clement A.