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Many lullabies are in triple metre, or in a compound metre like 6/8.

The gigue usually has a compound metre such as 6/8, 6/4, 9/8 or 12/16.

"Compound Time [Compound Metre]".

In compound metre, even-numbered tuplets can indicate that a note value is changed in relation to the dot (music) version of the next higher note value.

Simple metre or simple time is a metre in which each beat of the measure divides naturally into two equal parts, rather than three which gives a compound metre.

Compound meter, compound metre, or compound time (chiefly British variation), is a time signature or meter with a triple pulse within each beat (Latham 2002a).

The song is played in the compound time signature of 6/8.

It's called compound time because they're not beats that can be divided into two.

So that's obviously going to be in compound time.

The song is set in compound time with six eighth notes per bar.

Thus compound time uses a dotted note for the beat unit.

Still leaves three two three or four beats in a bar, but they're compound times.

Think about twelve four cos that's a compound time.

"I Feel You" has a compound time signature of 6/8.

It merely represents the number of interest conversions, or compounding times, per year.

"Compound time is just too messy for this piece.

"Chlorophyll" has a compound time signature which effectively amounts to 17/4.

So basically you're splitting this in compound time?

So many people find it very very difficult, to sort out the difference between simple times and compound times.

This system eliminates the need for compound time signatures (described above), which are confusing to beginners.

Compound time is associated with "lilting" and dance-like qualities.

The compound time is grouped in threes.

Folk dances often use compound time.

Of course they get more complicated don't they once you've got compound times, and, as well as simple times.

Its jaunty cross-rhythms, again in compound time, celebrate the fun of the seaside at Brighton.

It is set in compound time with eight eighth notes per bar and has a moderately fast tempo of 96 beats per minute.

Erm simple or compound time then?

Additionally the melody was in compound time and the backing riff modulated between the root and the minor 2nd.

The song has a partially compound time signature; 4/4 in the verses and 7/4 in the chorus.

In addition, when focusing only on the stressed beats, the simple time signatures themselves will count as beats in the compound time.

Erm we've done time signatures, compound time signatures.

Some parts adopt compound meter, with a time signature such as 12/8.

His use of rhythm often involves mixed, complex, and/or compound meters.

It is transcribed in compound meter, being 6/8 time.

A jig is a type of folk dance, usually in compound meter.

Compound meters have two measuring elements and a check valve to regulate flow between them.

Compound meters are written with a time signature showing the number of divisions of the beat in each measure.

These groupings of mensurations are the precursors of simple and compound meter.

The song is structured with four verses and a bridge, and uses a complex compound meter.

These are two complex compound meters that evoke the sense of a waltz used throughout the score of the show.

Metrically, the movement is set in shifting, regular compound meters that at times evoke both a clear or equally murky beat placement.

Some works with compound meter:

Compound meter may refer to:

Compound meter (music)

Examples of compound meter:

In compound meter, as in simple meter, the attack on the beat is called 'ta.'

Also other rewritings of time signatures are possible, most commonly a simple time signature with triplets can be translated into a compound meter.

"Swung" compound meter.

The basic structure of the cueca is that it is a compound meter in 6/8 or 3/4 and is divided into three sections.

The system has a basis of two related sets of syllables, one for simple meter and one for compound meter.

Whilst often written in 3/4 or 6/4, it is not a jazz waltz, since the feel alternates between simple meter and compound meter.

Compound meter divided into three parts could theoretically be transcribed into musically equivalent simple meter using triplets.

'Duple' is also a duration of 1 the regular note value duration in compound meter and or triple meter.

Rhythmically the music rarely uses complex time-signatures, but compound meters are encountered, and the music can be extremely complex harmonically.

One rule that is never ever transgressed is that this usul may not be a compound meter of the family aksak.

A compound meter is used where high flow rates are necessary, but at times there are smaller rates of flow that still need to be accurately measured.