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What does duple mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word duple? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (rare) Double.
  2. (music) Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure.
  3. (poetry) Having two beats in each foot.
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Furiant: A vigorous Czech dance characterized by its lively rhythm and sudden changes of tempo and mood, and from duple to triple time.
The second issue, the interpretation of time signatures and the relationship between duple and triple time, is more controversial.
Towards the end of the movement, this halling pattern becomes a springdans when the theme is played in triple rather than duple meter.
The simple melody derived from a pentatonic scale and the prevailing dotted rhythm in compound duple meter elicit the feeling of a slow, graceful Korean traditional dance.
Rhythm chants would be based not only on the usual duple and triple meters, but also on unusual meters.
The Pavan has been mentioned before, as the dance in duple time which preceded the Galliard which was in a triple rhythm.

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