Timeline for Can the rhythm of any music with a consistent pulse be represented through a time signature?
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| Oct 17, 2018 at 19:11 | comment | added | kr1 | Gregorian chant (when sung with a stable underlying pulse, cf. e.g. the solesmes tradition) fits this description well, too. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 7:29 | comment | added | Rosie F | Indeed. Consider Danse de la fureur, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time's 6th movement. There is no conductor, and the four players play the same rhythm as each other throughout, so, to keep in step, they must imagine a regular pulse which determines when to play each note. But there is no regular metre. Messiaen writes no time sigs. If you wanted to use time sigs, you'd have to either change at (almost) every bar line or have bar-lines which fail to represent the music's stresses. | |
| Oct 1, 2018 at 7:18 | history | answered | Kilian Foth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |