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How to pronounce duple in English?

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Synonyms double, dual


duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure.

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In columbia, triple pulse is the primary structure and duple pulse is secondary.
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However, the duple-pulse forms have existed in sub-Saharan Africa for centuries.
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If each measure is divided into two it is duple and if into three it is triple.
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The most usual time in our music is a simple duple or a simple quadruple beat.
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Like clave, the standard pattern is expressed in both triple and duple-pulse.
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The music consists of a single phrase in duple meter, repeated many times.
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Duple probably didn't care, the Brittania was not where the jam lay.
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Triple-pulse strokes can be substituted for duple-pulse strokes.
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Typically piano, accordion, or bass plays a duple oom-pah beat.
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  • Double: consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure"
  • Meter or metre is a term that music has inherited from the rhythmic element of poetry (Scholes 1977; Latham 2002) where it means the number of lines in a verse, the number of syllables in each line and the arrangement of those syllables as long or short, accented or unaccented (Scholes 1977; ...
  • Beats grouped into sets of two (strong-weak)
  • Occurring in groups of two; used to refer to rhythmic patterns such as 2/4 or 4/4.
  • Double, pair, couple
  • Is 2, and triple is 3 beats per measure.