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Duple
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Duple meaning
Double. | Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure. | Having two beats in each foot.
Example sentences (6)
Christensen (2002), p. 635. By the time of Ars Nova, the perfect division of the tempus was not the only option as duple divisions became more accepted.
For duple dances, that is every other couple, and for triple dances, every third couple is the active couple.
Swing Bottom: even duple subdivisions of the beat.
The dictionary does nonetheless provide the useful description of triple subdivisions of the beat contrasted with duple subdivisions: The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (1986: 818).
The irregular meters (not fitting duple or triple categories) are common in some non-Western music, but rarely appeared in formal written Western music until the 19th century.
The march, a step nearly always in duple meter, is here in 3/4 time (triple meter).