I know that most music comes in 4/4, but why? What’s preventing someone from just putting more bars into the sheet music and making that 2/4?
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It’s called common time for a reason. It’s an even number of weak and strong beats, easy to count, and very prevalent. 3/4 is generally harder to “feel” for the layman tho 2/4 and 6/8 usually feel quite natural to most. Rhythm and accents can be used to express a “6/8 feel” in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4. It’s feel a matter of interpretation and the artist’s’ original intention.
To answer the second part of the question, yes, a piece of 4/4 music could be expressed in 2/4, but that would cost more money in publishing(remember print pressing was time consuming and somewhat expensive compared to modern printing).
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