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What does duple mean?

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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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In many bars it is almost impossible to distinguish whether the tune is triple or duple.
The continuous soap bar coming from a duple vacuum plodder must be cut, with wanted lengths, in smaller bars or in engravied finished soaps.
The second issue, the interpretation of time signatures and the relationship between duple and triple time, is more controversial.
The Pavan has been mentioned before, as the dance in duple time which preceded the Galliard which was in a triple rhythm.
Towards the end of the movement, this halling pattern becomes a springdans when the theme is played in triple rather than duple meter.
Polka: A moderately quick Polish dance in duple meter, danced in a circular formation, with quick jumps on one leg.

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