English Dictionary

duple

形容詞

比較不可 稀用 時間・音楽

(rare) Double. / (of time or music) Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure. / (poetry) Having two beats in each foot.

日本語の意味

（珍しい用法）「二倍」の意味。 / （音楽）各小節に2拍、またはその倍数が含まれる拍子（例：二拍子）。 / （詩）各詩句の足が2拍からなる

The composer experimented with a duple meter layered over a triple rhythm to create a shifting pulse.

作曲家は、変化する脈動を生み出すために、三連のリズムに二拍子を重ねる実験を行った。

意味（1）

(rare) Double.

意味（2）

(of time or music) Having two beats, or a multiple of two beats, in each measure.

意味（3）

(poetry) Having two beats in each foot.

McGonagall is earnestly trying to gather the resources of a metrical tradition, not subvert it, but the mismatch of duple and triple measure in the first line alone means that, while it’s made of recognisable metrical feet, the line doesn’t feel like it belongs to any specific metrical pattern (iambic, dactylic, anapestic etc) or mode (pastoral, elegy or ballad).