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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

What does "sided" mean here?

two-sided waltz

What meaning does it have in music?
  

Top answer

Maybe it has something to do with time.

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Maybe it has something to do with time.
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Could it mean that the waltz stretches over two sides of a record (i.e. old-style vinyl record)?

I see only two contentful Google hits for "two-sided waltz". One seems to be referring to two different ways of interpreting a waltz, and the other one I don't understand. Clearly it is not a well known term.
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AnonymousWhat meaning does it have in music?
It is not a term used in music that I have ever heard of. It could be someone's personal description of a particular piece of waltz music. Can you give us any other clues, or shall we just keep guessing with no context to guide us?

CJ
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Thank you for the answers. I don't really have a context. But someone said, for example, a three-sided waltz is in 3/4 time. I don't know much about music, so I'm not sure whether it's correct or not.
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AnonymousThank you for the answers. I don't really have a context. But someone said, for example, a three-sided waltz is in 3/4 time. I don't know much about music, so I'm not sure whether it's correct or not.
Surely all waltzes are in 3/4 time. That is one of the main defining characteristics of the waltz.

Perhaps two-sided and three-sided ref
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AnonymousBut someone said, for example, a three-sided waltz is in 3/4 time.
Then "someone" is talking nonsense.
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Anonymous two-sided waltzWhat meaning does it have in music?
Please give more context. It has no meaning for me.

"meter" is used in context of music timing and rhythm, not "sided"