There is an old tradition of using Alla Breve to indicate the piece is a faster tempo, but current practice is to use tempo markings.
The cut time choice changes the feel of the music because of the strong beat. Your assertion that time signatures do not dictate tempo is correct. In a simple sense, it is correct. This works on the assumption that most people are used to the quarter note being the beat, which happens to be true. But it basically means that the pulse of the song will be on the half-notes. They were trying to provide a simplified first explanation of an unfamiliar meter symbol.
They meant "Crossing the C has the effect that the conductor's hand will start moving in cycles of two beats rather than four beats and you players will have to play twice faster to keep up. Except that there's no conductor around which makes the entire difference more abstract to formulate and less constrained to execute.
Of cousre, this was the same band leader that would ask us to play in the style of "bad 80's rock music", so perhaps she wasn't always giving us instructions in the most formal music theory lingo possible although she did know her theory as well.
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Learn more. Is it true that cut time means "play twice as fast as written"? Ask Question. Asked 2 years, 5 months ago. Active 1 year, 9 months ago. Viewed 6k times. I was just reading an e-book and saw this sentence which really confused me: "Played twice as fast as written" - This isn't what cut time actually means right, or are there situations where cut time means exactly that?
Improve this question. Andy Andy 2, 6 6 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. Marches are probably the most common use of cut time, due to their fast tempo and two-beat pulse. One big reason composers choose to use cut time is to make the music visually easier to read when playing at a faster tempo. Wikipedia actually has an excellent example of this so I can show you what I mean:. Cut time is easier to read for a couple reasons — the beats are smaller and thus easier to read, and the frequent barline divisions also make it easier to read.
Mathematically, yes. But not so much musically. Praeludium 15 in G major by J. Bach is written with a different time signature for each hand.
Not for the faint of heart, if you decide to learn it, it is at least a short piece. Many songs and classical pieces do this. You only read across each page once as everything on the page is happening at the same time. Notice that the first time signature is The time signature changes often in this piece. Georgina St George has been playing piano most of her life.
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