two-four time

noun

1. music a form of simple duple time in which there are two crotchet beats in each bar

Example Sentences

It contained both 16-bar melodies that the audience was used to, and innovative 12-bar sections, and mixed regular two-four time with the Afro-Cuban habanera dance rhythm.

From BBC

The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the engine-room two 6-cylinder combustion motors kept hammering away in a maddening two-four time.

From Project Gutenberg

The music was both rhythmic and ordered, now a waltz, now a tune in two-four time, but never faster or slower, and never ending ... except in the middle of each dance, for a brief few seconds, while the patronne collected a sou from each dancer, after which the dance proceeded.

From Project Gutenberg

But in the dances in two-four time their way was more our way, something between a one-step, a mattchiche, and a tango, with strange fascinating steps of their own devising, a folk-dance manner....

From Project Gutenberg