Sextuple meter

Sextuple time

Shared keywords

a compound meter with six beats to every bar

Allemand

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French

a dance of German origin with 4 moderate beats to the bar, although sometimes written as two longer beats in a bar, often the…

Allemande

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French

a dance of German origin with 4 moderate beats to the bar, although sometimes written as two longer beats in a bar, often the…

Almain

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French

a dance of German origin with 4 moderate beats to the bar, although sometimes written as two longer beats in a bar, often the…

Almand

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French

a dance of German origin with 4 moderate beats to the bar, although sometimes written as two longer beats in a bar, often the…

Almayne

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French

a dance of German origin with 4 moderate beats to the bar, although sometimes written as two longer beats in a bar, often the…

Common meter

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the meter of a four line stanza with eight, six, eight and six syllables per line

Additive meter

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patterns of beats that subdivide into smaller, irregular groups, for example, 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 10; a meter common in certain t…