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 • Dec. 30, 2012
The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps the most characteristic is the hailing, a solo dance in two-four time.
From Norwegian Life by Clough, Ethlyn T.
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....
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
Tausig tied the little thread to a doppio movimento in two-four time, but thereby resulted sextolets, which threw the chorale into still bolder relief.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James
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