common time
Noun
Meaning
a time signature indicating four beats to the bar
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"4/4" is used so often that it is also called " common time ", and it may be indicated with a "C" rather than numbers.
Citing a spokeswoman for the Isetan Mitsukoshi department store, The Wall Street Journal reported that sales there fell about 20 percent year-over-year during the recent Lunar New Year holiday, a common time for Chinese tourists to travel abroad.
In modern notation, it is used in place of main and is called alla breve or, colloquially, cut time or cut common time.
Since lunch is usually served between 1 and 4 p.m., another common time for tapas is weekend days around noon as a means of socializing before proper lunch at home.
Shown in common time and then in cut time with tied sixteenth & eighth note rather than rest.
The common time periods used are 30 days or less for most small laboratory animals and to 60 days for large animals and humans.