Question

The Seikilos is in 6/8 time. 6/8 time is an example of:

Question 3 options:


Simple Meter


Compound Meter


Perfect Past Meter


Kilometer

Answer 1

Compound Meter

Step-by-step explanation:

The six quavers can either be grouped into two beats (compound duple) or three beats (simple triple). Since the simple triple pattern already belongs to 3/4 time, 6/8 is compound duple. Notice that each beat in 6/8 is a dotted quarter note. In fact, all compound meters will have some dotted note as its beat.