Consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs.
1 The simple duple measure, so naturally ornamented, is nobly, broadly melodious.
2 Klindworth rightfully slurs the duple group of eighths; Kullak tries for the same effect by different means.
3 We shall give it you;-threedances shall proceed at once and together, despite their warring duple and triple rhythms:-
4 Or, combining these two modes of nomenclature, one may legitimately speak of iambic feet as " duple rising,"
5 But if this is a marked specimen of Riemann, examine his reading of the phrase wherein Chopin's triple rhythm is supplanted by duple .
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