NONUPLA

NONUPLA, in the Italian music, denotes a quick time, peculiar to jigs. This species of time is otherwise called the measure of nine times, which requires two falls of the hand, and one rise. There are three sorts of nonupla. 1. Nonupla di semi minime, or dupla sesquiquarta, thus marked $\backslash frac\{3\}\{4\}$, where nine crochets are to be in the bar, of which four make a semibreve in common time, i. e. in the down stroke six, and but three up: it is usually beat adagio. 2. Nonupla di crome, or sesqui ottava, marked thus $\backslash frac\{3\}\{8\}$, wherein nine quavers make a bar instead of eight in common time, i. e. fix down and three up: it is beat presto. 3. Nonupla di semicrome or super setti partiente nona, thus distinguished $\backslash frac\{7\}\{8\}$, in which nine semiquavers are contained in a bar, whereof sixteen are required in common time, fix down, and three up: it is ordinarily beat prestissimo. Besides these, there are two other species of nonupla, for which see TRIPLE.