Sextuple metre

Sextuple metre or sextuple time is a musical metre characterized by six beats in a measure. Like the more common duple, triple, and quadruple metres, it may be simple, with each beat divided in half, or compound, with each beat divided into thirds. The most common time signatures for simple sextuple metre are 64 and 68, and compound sextuple metre is most often written in 188 or 1816. A time signature of 188 or 1816, however, does not necessarily mean that the bar is a sextuple metre with each beat divided into three. It may, for example, be used to indicate a bar of triple metre in which each beat is subdivided into six parts. In this case, the metre is sometimes characterized as "triple sextuple time". Such a division of time may be encountered more frequently in the Baroque period: for example, variation 26 of the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach has 1816 in one hand against 34 in the other, exchanging hands at intervals until the last five bars where both hands are in 1816. Using 34 for both hands would result in continuous sextuplets.

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