Sextuple metre
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Sextuple metre (Am. meter) or sextuple time (chiefly British) is a musical
Baroque period: for example, variation 26 of the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach has 18
16 in one hand against 3
4 in the other, exchanging hands at intervals until the last five bars where both hands are in 18
16.[2]
Using 316 in one hand against 3
4 in the other, exchanging hands at intervals until the last five bars where both hands are in 18
16.[2]
4 for both hands would result in continuous sextuplets.
Sextuple metre should not be confused with the similarly notated compound duple metre. While both are notated with time signatures that have 6 as the top number, the former has six beats to a bar, while the latter has two beats to a bar. When 6
8 is used to signify sextuple metre, often the words "in six" or the equivalent in other languages are used to clarify the metre. An example of a piece in true sextuple time is Charles-Valentin Alkan's Barcarolette in E♭ minor, No. 12 of his 49 Esquisses, which is in compound sextuple time (18
8).[3]
See also
- Metre (hymn)
- Metre (poetry)
- Triple metre
- Duple and quadruple metre
- Composite rhythm
- Counting (music)
References
- ^ a b Read 1964, 152.
- ^ Bach 1968, 98–99.
- ^ Esquisses, Op. 63 (Alkan): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project. Paris. Simon Richault, n.d.(ca.1862). Plate 13476.R.
- Bach, Johann Sebastian. 1968. The Musical Offering [and] The "Goldberg Variations". Kalmus Study Scores no. 720. [N.p.]: Edwin F. Kalmus, Publisher of Music. Reprinted Melville, NY: Belwin Mills Publishing Corp.
- Read, Gardner. 1964. Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc.
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