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 | | Time signatures indicating two beats per bar (whether simple or compound) are called duple time; those with three beats to the bar are triple time. |
 | | These are time signatures which have a denominator which is not a power of two (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.). |
 | | For all meters, the first beat (the downbeat, ignoring any anacrusis) is usually stressed (though not always, for example in reggae where the offbeat are stressed); in time signatures with four groups in the bar (such as 4/4 and 12/8), the third beat is often also stressed, though to a lesser degree. |
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