Click on the play button below to listen to an excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty.

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What is the time signature?
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Image with alt text: The two-two time signature is written as the numeral two over the numeral two.

Image with alt text: The symbol for three-four time is the numeral three over the numeral four.

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Tchaikovsky's "The Sleeping Beauty" is primarily written in a 3/4 time signature, which is commonly used in waltzes and gives the music a flowing, graceful feel. If you have the excerpt playing, you can listen for the emphasis on the first beat of each measure to help identify it.