page_title: Quintuple meter
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Quintuple meter / History
caption_attribution_description: First Delphic Hymn, 138 BC, by an anonymous Athenian for the Pythian Games. done in Finale 2006 on a Macintosh, with a bit of Photoshop tweakage, by Antandrus (talk) Source: Harvard Anthology of Music. Two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1949. ISBN 0674393007
context_page_description: Quintuple meter or quintuple time is a musical meter characterized by five beats in a measure.
  The beats can have the pattern strong-weak-medium-weak-weak or strong-weak-weak-medium-weak, although a survey of certain forms of mostly American popular music suggests that latter is the more common of these two in these styles. The beats may use any other combination, including five equally-stressed beats in every bar, each consisting of an accent and a non-accent.
  Like the more common duple, triple, and quadruple meters, 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 quintuple meter are and, and compound quintuple meter is most often written in.
context_section_description: Before the 20th century, quintuple time was rare in European concert music, but is more commonly found in other cultures.
caption: Transcription of the opening of the First Delphic Hymn, by Athenaeus, son of Athenaeus
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