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- noun music The
articulation of twobars intriple time as if they were three bars induple time.
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Examples
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The original traditional Ukrainian text used a device, known as hemiola, in the rhythm (alternating the accents within each measure from 3/4 to 6/8 and back again).
Stupid Evil Bastard 2009
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That's that hemiola, where you've got three notes, but you're playing them in the space of two beats.
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That's that hemiola, where you've got three notes, but you're playing them in the space of two beats.
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Both musicians relished the dancing hemiola figures in the third movement, shifts of the downbeat between duple and triple groupings, and played with impressive bravura and accuracy.
Music review: Zuill Bailey and Orion Weiss at the Kennedy Center 2010
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The result is a whirling kaleidoscope of cross-rhythms, with prominent use of hemiola technique, in which two bars of a fast triple time become three slower beats.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez take their freaky instruments six-string baritone ukulele and mutant bass guitar on the road for this smash-and-grab video of a pounding piece of hemiola-ridden art rock about emotional claustrophobia.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN AND BRAD WHEELER 2010
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Reb for the link): "L'Orchestra du Roi Soleil, Raymond Scott, Sibelius, Mozart, The Beach Boys 'song In My Room, and the gravicèmbalo col piano e forte all make appearances in Cadaver Dogs, as well musical terms like hemiola and tactus."
WhimsyLand 2009
evin290 commented on the word hemiola
It's the only "uncool" syncopation, as my theory teacher would say...
May 20, 2007
shevek commented on the word hemiola
Your theory teacher is a square.
October 29, 2008