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added some more stuff; also some of the things listed under "Justified" and "Enforced" didn't really apply IMO, so I moved them
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* '''Straight''': Self-explanatory.
* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, [[{{VideoGame/Mother3}} 15/8, or 71907/40120]]. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
* '''Downplayed''': Percussion used slowly or quietly, so that you can't really tell, or a time signature like 10/4, divided as five measures of 2/4.
* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, [[{{VideoGame/Mother3}} 15/8, or 71907/40120]]. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
* '''Downplayed''': Percussion used slowly or quietly, so that you can't really tell, or a time signature like 10/4, divided as five measures of 2/4.
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* '''Straight''': Self-explanatory.
A song has a time signature of 7/8.
*'''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, '''Exaggerated''':
** The song constantly switches between different odd time signatures, featuring 11/8, 5/4, 7/8, and 7/4 all in quick succession.
** The song has a time signature of 46/4, and the composer insists that performers count all the way to 46 rather than subdividing each measure.
** The song has a time signature of 7/12, requiring the subdivision of beats into tuplets in order to be played correctly.
** The song has a time signature of [[{{VideoGame/Mother3}}15/8, or 71907/40120]].71907/40120]], so complex than it can only be performed by a computer. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
** The song has a time signature of π/4. Because this is a truly "irrational" (in the mathematical sense) time signature, the best bet for both the transcriber and the performer is to approximate it as 22/28.
** The song features a polymeter, with different instruments playing 5/4, 7/4, and 11/4 all at the same time until they finally sync back up 385 beats later.
*'''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** Percussion is used slowly or quietly, so that you can't reallytell, or tell.
** The song has a time signaturelike of 10/4, divided as five measures of 2/4.2/4.
** The song periodically uses "half-measures" of 2/4 (or, alternatively, 6/4) in an otherwise 4/4 section.
** Each phrase in the song consists of two bars of 4/4 and two of 3/4, or 14 beats in total.
** The song contains a brief passage, or even just a single measure, of 7/8.
** The song uses a polymeter where the drums are playing in 4/4, while the other instruments are playing in 3/4.
** The song has a time signature of 9/8, but subdivides it as 2+2+2+3 rather than the more common 3+3+3.
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** The song constantly switches between different odd time signatures, featuring 11/8, 5/4, 7/8, and 7/4 all in quick succession.
** The song has a time signature of 46/4, and the composer insists that performers count all the way to 46 rather than subdividing each measure.
** The song has a time signature of 7/12, requiring the subdivision of beats into tuplets in order to be played correctly.
** The song has a time signature of [[{{VideoGame/Mother3}}
** The song has a time signature of π/4. Because this is a truly "irrational" (in the mathematical sense) time signature, the best bet for both the transcriber and the performer is to approximate it as 22/28.
** The song features a polymeter, with different instruments playing 5/4, 7/4, and 11/4 all at the same time until they finally sync back up 385 beats later.
*
** Percussion is used slowly or quietly, so that you can't really
** The song has a time signature
** The song periodically uses "half-measures" of 2/4 (or, alternatively, 6/4) in an otherwise 4/4 section.
** Each phrase in the song consists of two bars of 4/4 and two of 3/4, or 14 beats in total.
** The song contains a brief passage, or even just a single measure, of 7/8.
** The song uses a polymeter where the drums are playing in 4/4, while the other instruments are playing in 3/4.
** The song has a time signature of 9/8, but subdivides it as 2+2+2+3 rather than the more common 3+3+3.
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** A student has to write a piece in Uncommon Time in order to pass their music degree.
** The composer just fells like experimenting with something different.
** The polyrhythm encodes [[Awesome/MissionImpossible "Implausible Missions Force" in morse]]
* '''Inverted''': CommonTime
** The composer just fells like experimenting with something different.
** The polyrhythm encodes [[Awesome/MissionImpossible "Implausible Missions Force" in morse]]
* '''Inverted''': CommonTime
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** The polyrhythm encodes [[Awesome/MissionImpossible "Implausible Missions Force" in
* '''Inverted''':
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* '''Parodied''': √31/e, 0.2/512, 71/-5. [[{{MindScrew}} The audience is baffled by this]].
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* '''Parodied''': √31/e, 0.2/512, 71/-5.71/-5, 206/i. [[{{MindScrew}} The audience is baffled by this]].
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* '''Enforced''':
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* '''Enforced''':'''Enforced''': The record label is going for a ProgressiveRock audience, and [[ExecutiveMeddling asks the band]] to incorporate more exotic time signatures in their songs to appeal to them.
* '''Lampshaded''': The song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics. ("Uncommon Headache" or simply "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 7/8]]")
* '''Invoked''':
** A student has to write a piece in Uncommon Time in order to pass their music degree.
** The composer just feels like experimenting with something different, or is providing a technical challenge for the performer.
** Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
* '''Lampshaded''': The song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics. ("Uncommon Headache" or simply "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 7/8]]")
* '''Invoked''':
** A student has to write a piece in Uncommon Time in order to pass their music degree.
** The composer just feels like experimenting with something different, or is providing a technical challenge for the performer.
** Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
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* '''Lampshaded''': The song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics. ("Uncommong Headache")
* '''Invoked''': Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
* '''Invoked''': Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
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* '''Deconstructed''': It's painfully obvious the song was originally written in CommonTime and then changed to suit UncommonTime, making what could have been a great song anywhere from decent to nearly unlistenable.
* '''Reconstructed''': An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly confusing.
* '''Reconstructed''': An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly confusing.
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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
** It's painfully obvious the song was originally written in CommonTime and then changed to suit UncommonTime, making what could have been a great song anywhere from decent to nearly unlistenable.
** The performer(s) find it too difficult to play a song with a time signature of 37/32.
*'''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
** An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglinglyconfusing.confusing.
** The performer(s) decide to play the song at a much slower tempo, making the time signature more like 37/16 in practice. Still highly unusual, but significantly more playable.
* '''Played For Laughs''': A song with a 19/16 time signature is played at a [[HighSchoolDance school dance]]. HilarityEnsues as the students try to figure out how to dance to it.
* '''Played For Drama''': A song with a 19/16 time signature is played at a [[DanceOff dance competition]].
** It's painfully obvious the song was originally written in CommonTime and then changed to suit UncommonTime, making what could have been a great song anywhere from decent to nearly unlistenable.
** The performer(s) find it too difficult to play a song with a time signature of 37/32.
*
** An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly
** The performer(s) decide to play the song at a much slower tempo, making the time signature more like 37/16 in practice. Still highly unusual, but significantly more playable.
* '''Played For Laughs''': A song with a 19/16 time signature is played at a [[HighSchoolDance school dance]]. HilarityEnsues as the students try to figure out how to dance to it.
* '''Played For Drama''': A song with a 19/16 time signature is played at a [[DanceOff dance competition]].
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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''':???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''':
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** The polyrhythm encodes [[Awesome/MissionImpossible "Implausible Missions Force" in morse]]
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** Someone is turning a poem into a song, but the poem has an unusual rhythms. It has to use Uncommon Time to avert AccentUponTheWrongSyllable.
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** Someone is turning a poem into a song, but the poem has an unusual rhythms.rhythm. It has to use Uncommon Time to avert AccentUponTheWrongSyllable.
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** Someone is turning a poem into a song, but the poem has an unusual rhythms. It has to use Uncommon Time to avert AccentUponTheWrongSyllable.
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* '''Inverted''': ???
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* '''Inverted''': ???CommonTime
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* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, or [[{{VideoGame/Mother3}} 15/8]]. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, or [[{{VideoGame/Mother3}} 15/8]].15/8, or 71907/40120]]. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
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* '''Justified''': A student has to write a piece in Uncommon Time in order to pass their music degree.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** A student has to write a piece in Uncommon Time in order to pass their musicdegree.degree.
** The composer just fells like experimenting with something different.
** A student has to write a piece in Uncommon Time in order to pass their music
** The composer just fells like experimenting with something different.
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* '''Reconstructed''':
** An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly confusing.
** An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly confusing.
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* '''Reconstructed''':
**'''Reconstructed''': An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly confusing.
**
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* '''Deconstructed''': It's painfully obvious the song was originally written in CommonTime and then changed to suit UncommonTime, making what could have been a great song anywhere from decent to nearly unlistenable.
* '''Reconstructed''':
**An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly confusing.
* '''Reconstructed''':
**An old church hymn, after many years of interpreting the free time structure as CommonTime -- much to the chagrin of many a choir, who had to sing the hymn with a very disjointed, irregular, and confusing rhythm -- is rewritten with UncommonTime in mind to better suit the rhythm of the original song as well as make it less mind-bogglingly confusing.
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* '''Enforced''': "We want our song to be as unique as possible. Let's use a time signature that's never been used before."
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* '''Enforced''': "We '''Enforced''':
**"We want our song to be as unique as possible. Let's use a time signature that's never been used before."
**"I like this song of mine a lot, but I don't want it to be blasted out on pop radio all the time... I know! I'll put it in 5/4! That should do it..."
**"We want our song to be as unique as possible. Let's use a time signature that's never been used before."
**"I like this song of mine a lot, but I don't want it to be blasted out on pop radio all the time... I know! I'll put it in 5/4! That should do it..."
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'''Basic Trope''': A song uses a time signature that's, well, uncommon. It's typically agreed on that 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 3/8, 4/4, 6/4, and 6/8 are common time signatures. Of somewhat less approval are versions of these with divergent denominators, like 6/2 and 3/16, as well as slightly less common ones like 8/8 (3+3+2 or 4+4), 9/8 (3+3+3), and 12/8 (3+3+3+3 or 4+4+4+4). Generally agreed to be uncommon are time signatures like 5/4, 7/4, 13/8, and 9/8 (2+2+2+3).
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'''Basic Trope''': A song uses a time signature that's, well, uncommon. It's typically agreed on that 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 3/8, 4/4, 6/4, and 6/8 are common time signatures. Of somewhat less approval are versions of these with divergent denominators, like 6/2 and 3/16, as well as slightly less common ones like 8/8 (3+3+2 or 4+4), 9/8 (3+3+3), and 12/8 (3+3+3+3 or 4+4+4+4).4+4+4). Generally agreed to be uncommon are time signatures like 5/4, 7/4, 13/8, and 9/8 (2+2+2+3).
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* '''Justified''': ???
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* '''Justified''': ???A student has to write a piece in Uncommon Time in order to pass their music degree.
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* '''Lampshaded''': The song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics.
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* '''Lampshaded''': The song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics. ("Uncommong Headache")
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???The song switches back and forth from normal signatures like 4/4 and complex ones like 7/4.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, or √31/e. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, or √31/e.[[{{VideoGame/Mother3}} 15/8]]. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
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* '''Parodied''': ???
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* '''Parodied''': ???√31/e, 0.2/512, 71/-5. [[{{MindScrew}} The audience is baffled by this]].
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* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
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* '''Subverted''': ???
The song sounds like it's on an odd meter, but it's [[Music/{{Meshuggah}} actually a complicated polyrhythm over 4/4]].
* '''Double Subverted''':???Same as above... but then the song legitimately switches to a weird signature.
* '''Double Subverted''':
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\"Conversed\" does not mean \"a response to Discussed\". It means \"talking about the trope in another work\".
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* '''Enforced''': ???
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* '''Enforced''': ???"We want our song to be as unique as possible. Let's use a time signature that's never been used before."
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* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
* '''Exploited''': Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
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* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''':Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.world.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Exploited''': ???
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* '''Discussed''': "I... can't find the rhythm in this."
* '''Conversed''': "You'll get used to it. This stuff shows up all the time in Southeastern European music, I hear."
* '''Conversed''': "You'll get used to it. This stuff shows up all the time in Southeastern European music, I hear."
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* '''Discussed''': "Unlike some of the music you may hear nowadays, all our songs have CommonTime."
* '''Conversed''': "I... can't find the rhythm in this."
* '''Conversed''':" "You'll get used to it. This stuff shows up all the time in Southeastern European music, I hear."
* '''Conversed''': "I... can't find the rhythm in this.
* '''Conversed''':
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* '''Justified''':
* '''Inverted''': CommonTime.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': CommonTime.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': A song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics.
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Inverted''': CommonTime.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': CommonTime.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': A song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics.
* '''Invoked''':
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* '''Justified''':
'''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''':CommonTime.
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*'''Subverted''':
'''Subverted''': ???
*'''Parodied''':
'''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''ZigZagged''':
Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':CommonTime.
CommonTime
*'''Enforced''':
'''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''':A The song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics.
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Inverted''':
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* '''Parodied''': ???
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* '''Lampshaded''':
* '''Invoked''': ???
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* '''Defied''': ???
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* '''Conversed''': "You'll get used to it. This stuff shows up all the time in Southeastern European music, I hear."
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* '''Conversed''': "You'll get used to it. This stuff shows up all the time in Southeastern European music, I hear.""
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'''Basic Trope''': A song uses a time signature that's, well, uncommon. It's typically agreed on that 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 3/8, 4/4, 6/4, and 6/8 are common time signatures. Of somewhat less approval are versions of these with divergent denominators, like 6/2 and 3/16, as well as slightly less common ones like 8/8 (3+3+2 or 4+4), 9/8 (3+3+3), and 12/8 (3+3+3+3 or 4+4+4+4). Generally agreed to be uncommon are time signatures like 5/4, 7/4, 13/8, and 9/8 (2+2+2+3).
* '''Straight''': Self-explanatory.
* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, or √31/e. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
* '''Downplayed''': Percussion used slowly or quietly, so that you can't really tell, or a time signature like 10/4, divided as five measures of 2/4.
* '''Justified''':
* '''Inverted''': CommonTime.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': CommonTime.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': A song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics.
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''': Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
* '''Defied''':
* '''Discussed''': "I... can't find the rhythm in this."
* '''Conversed''': "You'll get used to it. This stuff shows up all the time in Southeastern European music, I hear."
* '''Straight''': Self-explanatory.
* '''Exaggerated''': Really weird ones like 23/8, 28/16, 143/24, or √31/e. It's very difficult to come up with something coherent and listenable, much less danceable, with signatures like these.
* '''Downplayed''': Percussion used slowly or quietly, so that you can't really tell, or a time signature like 10/4, divided as five measures of 2/4.
* '''Justified''':
* '''Inverted''': CommonTime.
* '''Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zig Zagged''':
* '''Averted''': CommonTime.
* '''Enforced''':
* '''Lampshaded''': A song's time signature is directly called out in its title or lyrics.
* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''': Artists deliberately use odd time signatures to make their music seem more sophisticated or attract a new fanbase in the prog world.
* '''Defied''':
* '''Discussed''': "I... can't find the rhythm in this."
* '''Conversed''': "You'll get used to it. This stuff shows up all the time in Southeastern European music, I hear."
