Duple

Word DUPLE
Character 5
Hyphenation du ple
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Duple"

What do we mean by duple?

Consisting of two; double. adjective

Consisting of two or a multiple of two beats to the measure. adjective

Double.

To double.

Double. adjective

That in which the antecedent term is double the consequent, as of 2 to 1, 8 to 4, etc. adjective

Double. adjective

Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure. adjective

Having two beats in each foot. adjective

Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs adjective

Double.

Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure.

Having two beats in each foot.

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The word "duple" in example sentences

Conductors should mark the changes, and conduct them (beating the half-note, as much as possible); singers need only keep an even quarter-note pulse, whether duple or compound, and follow the natural rhythm and accentuation of the text. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Both musicians relished the dancing hemiola figures in the third movement, shifts of the downbeat between duple and triple groupings, and played with impressive bravura and accuracy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What we know: it's something written by the date of the film, it involves at least one mallet instrument, and it contains at least 15 or so seconds of music in straight duple meter. ❋ Lisa Hirsch (2009)

For three voices, in duple meter, based on a structural duet of discantus and tenor with an added contratenor, and occasionally imitative, they display the usual characteristics of the genre. ❋ Lu (2009)

Binchois's songs are his most attractive compositions: typical features include the use of under-3rd cadences, rather short-breathed phrases, triple rhythm the only song in duple time is Seule esgaree, and the apparent repetition of material. ❋ Lu (2009)

Leaving behind the triumvirate, we enter into the duple meter of blank and, then, free verse. ❋ EILEEN (2009)

Certainly, the rhymthic structures are quadruple and duple (with the exception of "Hitler In My Heart" where we are given 5's and 7's), but within those thoroughly square and masculine rhythms, there is a litheness, a suppleness, a winding and breathing, a certain fluidity that is thoroughly feminine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Actually, the Helmer score is notated in free rhythm, but a duple meter is suggested. ❋ Bls (2009)

The special feature of the Cantigas is that many of them use duple and triple rhythms in the same song N.ºs 18 and 206. ❋ Lu (2009)

The primary difference in the Karp transcription (Vol. 2, pg. 206) and the Helmer transcription (pg. 243) is that the former is in triple meter and the latter, duple. ❋ Bls (2009)

From a musical perspective, these were melodies written in minor keys, in duple meter, at times in the rhythm of a marche (in most cases, a slow marche), in strophic form. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The final duple arrangement is ‘Classical Prosody’ and ‘Prosody and Period’ -- the latter worth the price of admission by itself. ❋ EILEEN (2009)

This form of dance, and music, has a Czechoslovakian origin in peasant dance, and is a fast paced duple time pattern. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Ives's contention too about true American music--based on the doubled duple--and why Ives insisted on keeping ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

In these same proportions and their multiples, and particularly in the “means” found within multiples of the duple proportion (arithme - tic = 2: 3: 4; geometric = 1: 2: 4; harmonic = 3: 4: 6), lay for subsequent Pythagorean thinkers the rela - tionships between all sorts of natural phenomena. ❋ JAMES HAAR (1968)

These four movements are variously named: the first two are called _falling_, the second two _rising_; 1a and 2a are called _duple_ or _dissyllabic_, 1b and 2b _triple_ or _trisyllabic_; 1a is called ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

The general rhythm of the whole sonnet of which these two lines are the beginning is plainly duple rising, or iambic. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

_ The short couplet in duple iambic-trochaic movement has proved its worth by its long history and the variety of its uses. ❋ Paull Franklin Baum (N/A)

He likewise observes that it is a proper medium between the different feet above-mentioned: -- the proportion between the long and short syllables, in every foot, being either sesquiplicate, duple, or equal. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

Many other less eligible duple and triple compounds of russet are obvious upon principle, and it may be produced by adding red in due predominance to some browns; but these, like most mixtures, are inferior to original pigments. ❋ George Field (N/A)

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