What Does Time Signature Mean In Music Terms?
Time signature is also known as ‘meter signature’. In Western Classical music, time signature is a notational convention. This term is used to specify the number of beats in each bar and what is the note value of one beat. Mostly, time signature consists of 2 numbers, one on top of the other. Time signature appears at the beginning of the piece in a musical score. To indicate a change of meter, a mid-score time signature immediately follows a barline. There are simple and compound time signatures, in a simple time signature the upper no indicated the number of beats there are in a bar; and the lower number indicates the note value which represents one single beat also known as the beat unit. The most easy time signatures are 2/4, 3/4, 4/4. Compound time signatures are really compound and only trained musicians can understand and read them.
