two-four time
Britishnoun
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It contained both 16-bar melodies that the audience was used to, and innovative 12-bar sections, and mixed regular two-four time with the Afro-Cuban habanera dance rhythm.
From BBC
The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the engine-room two 6-cylinder combustion motors kept hammering away in a maddening two-four time.
From Project Gutenberg
The music was both rhythmic and ordered, now a waltz, now a tune in two-four time, but never faster or slower, and never ending ... except in the middle of each dance, for a brief few seconds, while the patronne collected a sou from each dancer, after which the dance proceeded.
From Project Gutenberg
But in the dances in two-four time their way was more our way, something between a one-step, a mattchiche, and a tango, with strange fascinating steps of their own devising, a folk-dance manner....
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