simple time

music
Also known as: simple metre

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metre

  • In metre

    Simple metres are duple (e.g., 2/2, 2/4), triple (3/4, 3/8), or quadruple (4/4, 4/8). Compound metres are also duple (6/

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musical rhythm

  • classical poetic metre
    In rhythm: Time

    …to a measure—are known as simple time. The division of each of the component beats into three produces compound time:

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time signature

  • In time signature

    In simple time, the top figure reflects the number of beats in each measure, or metrical unit; the bottom figure indicates the note value that receives one beat (here, respectively, half note, quarter note, eighth note, and sixteenth note). By comparison, compound metres (e.g., duple, as…

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