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