Group 1: identifying time signatures
Activity
Match the time signatures, 3/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 3/8 to bar numbers 1–5.
Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 5 items in each list.
3/4
2/4
4/4
3/2
3/8
Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list:
a.Bar 5
b.Bar 3
c.Bar 1
d.Bar 2
e.Bar 4
- 1 = c,
- 2 = d,
- 3 = b,
- 4 = e,
- 5 = a
Answer
Bar 1: 3/4 There are three crotchet beats made up from a minim plus two quavers.
Bar 2: 2/4 The beaming shows two crotchet beats.
Bar 3: 4/4 The time values add up to four crotchets in total. Notice that the first two quavers cannot be beamed together since the beam would cross the middle of the bar.
Bar 4: 3/2 The dotted minim plus crotchet gives two minims and the bar is completed with another minim.
Bar 5: 3/8 There are three quaver beats. Notice that the four semiquavers plus the quaver can all be beamed together.