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Undecuple meter
Undecuple meter or undecuple time is a musical meter in which each measure is divided into 11 equally spaced beats, usually notated as either or . It is usually subdivided into groupings of two or three beats (for example, a grouping of the meter could be ). The meter remained largely unused until the 19th century, when Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov used it in his operas The Snow Maiden and Sadko. Because 11 is a prime number, undecuple meter is considered a complex time signature. It can be found in jazz, pop, and rock music.
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Undecuple meter or undecuple time is a musical meter in which each measure is divided into 11 equally spaced beats, usually notated as either or . It is usually subdivided into groupings of two or three beats (for example, a grouping of the meter could be ). The meter remained largely unused until the 19th century, when Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov used it in his operas The Snow Maiden and Sadko. Because 11 is a prime number, undecuple meter is considered a complex time signature. It can be found in jazz, pop, and rock music.
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