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triple time

noun

, Music.
  1. time or rhythm characterized by three beats to the measure with an accent on the first beat.


triple time

noun

  1. musical time with three beats in each bar
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of triple time1

First recorded in 1655–65
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Example Sentences

My heart was beating triple time, waiting to see who’d sent it.

Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.”

She didn’t respond, her heart pounding in triple time as she made her way to the attic.

The second movement, a galloping scherzo in triple time, was brimming with character, and benefited greatly from Cox’s locomotive approach.

He exploited time signatures and forms; for “Night Music,” he wrote a waltz, two sarabandes, two mazurkas, a polonaise, an étude and a gigue — nearly an entire score written in permutations of triple time.

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