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Cut time

Cut time is a musical meter played like common time (4/4), except with the note lengths halved. Thus, a quarter note in cut time is only half a beat long. A measure has only two beats. The other meter with two-beat measures is fast 6/8, in which note lengths are 2/3 their normal values.

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