Tanda birama (bahasa Inggris:time signaturecode: en is deprecated , bar signature,[1]metre signature,[2] atau measure signature[3]) adalah suatu pengukuran notasi musik dunia Barat yang memperincikan serta menetapkan berapa banyak yang akan terkandung dalam setiap birama serta mengukur berapa nilai not yang bersamaan dengan satu satuan ketuk tersebut.
Jenis Tanda Birama
Common Time: Sama dengan 4/4
4/4: Menunjukan 4 not 1 ketuk (croctchet note) dalam 1 birama
3/4: Menunjukan 3 not 1 ketuk (croctchet note) dalam 1 birama
5/4: Menunjukan 5 not 1 ketuk (croctchet note) dalam 1 birama
Rujukan
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↑Henry Cowell and David Nicholls, New Musical Resources, third edition (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996): 63. ISBN0521496519 (cloth); ISBN0521499747 (pbk); Cynthia M. Gessele, "Thiéme, Frédéric [Thieme, Friedrich]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001); James L. Zychowicz, Mahler's Fourth Symphony (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005): 82–83, 107. ISBN0195181654.
↑Edwin Gordon, Rhythm: Contrasting the Implications of Audiation and Notation (Chicago: GIA Publications, 2000): 111. ISBN1579990983.