compound time
music
Also known as: compound metre
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division of musical rhythm
- In rhythm: Time
…component beats into three produces compound time:
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metre
time signature
- In time signature
By comparison, compound metres (e.g., duple, as in 6/8 or 6/16, or triple, as in 9/8) have time signatures that indicate the number of beats to be a multiple of three. When measures contain an uneven number of beats falling regularly into two subgroups, the division may…
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